Happy Endings in Hollywood Cinema: Cliché, Convention and the Final Couple

by James MacDowell

Book Overview

The Hollywood 'happy ending' has long been considered among the most famous and standardised features in the whole of narrative filmmaking. Yet, while ceaselessly invoked, this notorious device has received barely any detailed attention from the field of film studies.

This book is thus the first in-depth examination of one of the most overused and under-analysed concepts in discussions of popular cinema. What exactly is the 'happy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748699775
• ISBN13: 9780748699773
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"