The Hollywood Romantic Comedy: Conventions, History, Controversies Hardcover - 2011 - 1st Edition
by Leger Grindon
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Though rarely explored in analytical detail, the romantic comedy remains a stalwart contributor to Hollywood entertainment. This book offers a comprehensive history of the Hollywood romantic comedy film, from the coming of sound to the twenty-first century, examining the conventions of the genre and surveying the controversies arising from the critical responses to these films.
Hollywood's romantic comedies can be seen as a series of productions whose form and meaning change in response to conditions in the film industry, courtship culture, and society at large. This book provides an essential overview of the continuities within the genre as well as its historical evolution. A full analysis is provided of the range of romantic comedy conventions, including dramatic conflicts, characters, plots, settings, and the function of humor. In doing so, Leger Grindon develops a survey of historical cycles and clusters and builds a canon of key films from Hollywood's classical era right up to the present day, which are analyzed in detail in the second part of the book. Films analyzed include Trouble in Paradise, His Girl Friday, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Adam's Rib, Some Like It Hot, The Graduate, Annie Hall, When Harry Met Sally, There's Something About Mary, and Waitress.
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- Title The Hollywood Romantic Comedy: Conventions, History, Controversies
- Author Leger Grindon
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
- Date 2011
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9781405182669 / 1405182660
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Film
- Library of Congress subjects Love in motion pictures, Romantic comedy films - United States -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010043498
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.436
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Citations
- Choice, 09/01/2011, Page 0
- Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2011, Page 181
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