When Harry Met Sally ...

by Tamar Jeffers McDonald

Overview

Ground-breaking in its departure from its predecessors, When Harry Met Sally (1989) established classic romantic comedy themes and tropes still being employed today. Placing the film in its historical, social and generic contexts, Tamar Jeffers-McDonald explores how writer Nora Ephron and director Rob Reiner used structure, filmic devices, music and classic romcom concepts in innovative new ways. In her fresh and timely appraisal of this definitive, much-loved classic, Jeffers McDonald reflects on the film's enduring legacy and influence on popular culture to give readers a wider perspective on the continuing evolution and importance of the romcom genre.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844579075
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/25/2015
Series:	BFI Film Classics
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Tamar Jeffers McDonald is Dean of the School of Art and Media & Professor in Film History, University of Brighton, UK. She is the co-editor of Stars, Fan Magazines and Audiences: Desire by Design Hollywood and author of Catwalk: Reading Costume and Transformation in American Film (2010) Doris Day Confidential: Hollywood Sex and Stardom (2013).

Table of Contents

Introduction and Acknowledgments.- 'When Harry Met Sally...'.- Notes.- Credits.