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Terms of Endearment : Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1980s and 1990s / Peter William Evans, Celestino Deleyto.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748608850
  • 9780585070186
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/617 21
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.C55 T47 1998eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Surviving Love -- 2 Love Lies: Romantic Fabrication in Contemporary Romantic Comedy -- 3 'I Think I Could Fall in Love with Him': Victor/Victoria and the 'Drag' of Romantic Comedy -- 4 Murphy's Romance: Romantic Love and the Everyday -- 5 Something Wild: Take a Walk on the Wild Side (But Be Home before Midnight) -- 6 Time Trips and Other Tropes: Peggy Sue Got Married and the Metaphysics of Romantic Comedy -- 7 Working Girl: A Case Study of Achievement by Women? New Opportunities, Old Realities -- 8 Love and Other Triangles: Alice and the Conventions of Romantic Comedy -- 9 The Fever and the Itch: Matching Plots in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever -- 10 Allison Anders's Gas Food Lodging: Independent Cinema and the New Romance -- 11 Meg Ryan, Megastar -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Taking into account romantic comedy's current popularity and the genre's adaptability to changing historical circumstances, as well as its powerful tendency to contain and assimilate social changes, this book explores the complex ways in which recent cultural discourses on gender and sexuality have found their way into the apparently inflexible structure of romantic comedy. Focusing on a wide range of well-known films (including Working Girl, Murphy's Romance, Peggy Sue Got Married, When Harry Met Sally, Green Card) the chapters cover topics relating to formal, historical and ideological questions, including issues of romance, love and female subjectivity.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Surviving Love -- 2 Love Lies: Romantic Fabrication in Contemporary Romantic Comedy -- 3 'I Think I Could Fall in Love with Him': Victor/Victoria and the 'Drag' of Romantic Comedy -- 4 Murphy's Romance: Romantic Love and the Everyday -- 5 Something Wild: Take a Walk on the Wild Side (But Be Home before Midnight) -- 6 Time Trips and Other Tropes: Peggy Sue Got Married and the Metaphysics of Romantic Comedy -- 7 Working Girl: A Case Study of Achievement by Women? New Opportunities, Old Realities -- 8 Love and Other Triangles: Alice and the Conventions of Romantic Comedy -- 9 The Fever and the Itch: Matching Plots in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever -- 10 Allison Anders's Gas Food Lodging: Independent Cinema and the New Romance -- 11 Meg Ryan, Megastar -- Select Bibliography -- Index

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Taking into account romantic comedy's current popularity and the genre's adaptability to changing historical circumstances, as well as its powerful tendency to contain and assimilate social changes, this book explores the complex ways in which recent cultural discourses on gender and sexuality have found their way into the apparently inflexible structure of romantic comedy. Focusing on a wide range of well-known films (including Working Girl, Murphy's Romance, Peggy Sue Got Married, When Harry Met Sally, Green Card) the chapters cover topics relating to formal, historical and ideological questions, including issues of romance, love and female subjectivity.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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