Romantic Comedy: Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre

by Tamar Jeffers McDonald

Overview

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).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781905674022
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	04/10/2007
Series:	Short Cuts
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Tamar Jeffers McDonald is lecturer in film studies at Rutherford College, University of Kent, 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Romantic Comedy and Genre
2. Screwball Comedies
3. The Sex Comedy
4. The Radical Romantic Comedy
5. The Neo—Traditional Romantic Comedy
Conclusion
Notes
Appendices
Filmography
Bibliography
Index