Romantic Comedy: Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre

By Tamar Jeffers Mcdonald

Book 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).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905674023
• ISBN13: 9781905674022
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.3" x 7.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher