Romantic Comedy: Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre

April, 2007
Paper, 144 pages,
ISBN: 978-1-905674-02-2
Wallflower Press
$22.00

Romantic Comedy offers an introduction to the analysis of a popular but overlooked film genre. The book provides an overview of Hollywood's romantic comedy conventions, examining iconography, narrative patterns, and ideology. Chapters discuss important subgroupings within the genre: screwball sex comedy and the radical romantic comedy of the 1970s. A final chapter traces the lasting influence of these earlier forms within current romantic comedies. Films include: Pillow Talk (1959), Annie Hall (1977), and You've Got Mail (1998).

Related Subjects

• Film

About the Author

Tamar Jeffers McDonald is senior lecturer in film studies at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, United Kingdom. She is the author of the forthcoming Hollywood Catwalk: Exploring Costume in Mainstream Film and editor of Virgin Territory: Representing Sexual Inexperience in Film.

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