Terms of endearment : Hollywood romantic comedy of the 1980s and 1990s /

Using a wide range of popular mainstream films, this book looks at how recent cultural discourses on gender and sexuality have found their way into the apparently inflexible structure of romantic comedy.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Evans, Peter William, Deleyto, Celestino
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©1998.
Temas:
Comedy films > United States > History and criticism.
Love in motion pictures.
Films comiques > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Amour au cinéma.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
Comedy films
Love in motion pictures
Films.
Komedies.
Film.
Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Surviving love / Peter William Evans and Celestino Deleyto
  • Love lies : romantic fabrication in contemporary romantic comedy / Frank Krutnik
  • 'I think I could fall in love with him' : Victor/Victoria and the 'drag' of romantic comedy / Steven Cohan
  • Murphy's romance : romantic love and the everyday / Deborah Thomas
  • Something wild : take a walk on the wild side (but be home before midnight) / Constanza del Río
  • Time trips and other tropes : Peggy Sue got married and the metaphysics of romantic comedy / Bruce Babington
  • Working girl : a case study of achievement by women? New opportunities, old realities / Chantal Cornut-Gentille
  • Love and other triangles : Alice and the conventions of romantic comedy / Celestino Deleyto
  • The fever and the itch : matching plots in Spike Lee's Jungle fever / Isabel C. Santaolalla
  • Allison Anders's Gas food lodging : independent cinema and the new romance / Kathleen Rowe Karlyn
  • Meg Ryan, megastar / Peter William Evans.

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