Love Wars - Television Romantic Comedy

The first overview of romantic comedy on the small screen.

List of contents

Introduction - Television Romantic Comedy: A Cinderella Story
1. ‘It had to be you’: Looking for Love in the Big City
2. ‘Now That I’ve Found You’: Perfect Couples and Happy Ever After’
3. Love Wars: Couples in Conflict
4. Second Time Around: Mature Love and Romance
5. ‘Odd Couples and Urban Families’: Friendship, Work and Love
Conclusion - Television Romantic Comedy: The Case for. Why Aren’t People Writing about them?

Endnotes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Mary Irwin is a senior lecturer in Media and Communication at Northumbria University. She has also worked as a teaching fellow at the University of Stirling, a research fellow at University College London and most recently as a research fellow at the University of Warwick on the AHRC project ‘A History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947-1989’.

Summary

The first overview of romantic comedy on the small screen.

Foreword

An in-depth exploration of the key themes and changing cultural contexts of television romantic comedy, emphasising the central significance of women across the genre's development.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Irwin
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.12.2016
• EAN: 9781784533465
• ISBN: 978-1-78453-346-5
• No. of pages: 3256
• Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture; Library of Gender and Popular; Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Television, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General