The most up-to-date study of the Hollywood romantic comedy film, from the development of sound to the twenty-first century, this book examines the history and conventions of the genre and surveys the controversies arising from the critical responses to these films. * Provides a detailed interpretation of important romantic comedy films from as early as 1932 to movies made in the twenty-first century * Presents a full analysis of the range of romantic comedy conventions, including dramatic conflicts, characters, plots, settings, and the function of humor * Develops a survey of romantic comedy movies and builds a canon of key films from Hollywood's classical era right up to the present day * Chapters work as discrete studies as well as within the larger context of the book
| Autor: | Grindon Leger |
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| ISBN: | 9781405182669 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Wiley |
| Veröffentlicht: | 18.03.2011 |
| Untertitel: | Conventions, History, Controversies |
| Schlagworte: | Comedy and stand-up Cultural Studies Film: styles and genres Geschichte des Filmtheaters History of Cinema Hollywood Kulturwissenschaften United States of America, USA |
Leger Grindon is Professor of Film and Media Culture at Middlebury College, USA. He has written widely on film and is the author of Shadows on the Past: Studies in the Historical Fiction Film (1994) and Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema (2011).