Leger Grindon

The Hollywood Romantic Comedy (eBook, ePUB)

Conventions, History, Controversies

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The most up-to-date study of the Hollywood romantic comedy film, from the development of sound to the twenty-first century, this book examines the history and conventions of the genre and surveys the controversies arising from the critical responses to these films. * Provides a detailed interpretation of important romantic comedy films from as early as 1932 to movies made in the twenty-first century * Presents a full analysis of the range of romantic comedy conventions, including dramatic conflicts, characters, plots, settings, and the function of humor * Develops a survey of romantic comedy movies and builds a canon of key films from Hollywood's classical era right up to the present day * Chapters work as discrete studies as well as within the larger context of the book

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444395952
• Artikelnr.: 37356018

Autorenporträt

Leger Grindon is Professor of Film and Media Culture at Middlebury College, USA. He has written widely on film and is the author of Shadows on the Past: Studies in the Historical Fiction Film (1994) and Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates.
Acknowledgements.
1 Introduction.
2 History, Cycles, and Society.
3 Thinking Seriously About Laughter and Romance.
4 Trouble in Paradise (1932): What is the Trouble in Paradise?
5 His Girl Friday (1940): Jailbreak!
6 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944): The Home Front Romantic Comedy.
7 Adam's Rib (1949): Anatomy Lesson.
8 Some Like It Hot (1959): Riding Sidesaddle.
9 The Graduate (1967): Counter-Conventions and Cultural Change.
10 Annie Hall (1977): The Trials of Partnership.
11 When Harry Met Sally (1989): Friendship, Sex, and Courtship.
12 There's Something About Mary (1998): Parody and the Grotesque.
13 Waitress (2007): Women's Ambivalence.
A Chronology of Prominent Hollywood Romantic Comedies.
References.
Index.