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Zusatztext Embrace the politics of pleasure in Guilluy’s groundbreaking feminist fieldwork and brilliant analysis on rom-com audience reception, where viewers negotiate the heady pleasure of critique and heart-tingling delight of emotional and social engagement! Gratification guaranteed for film and gender scholars alike. Informationen zum Autor Alice Guilluy is the MA Deputy Programme Leader at MetFilm School. She has published articles in The Bulletin of Sociological Methodology and in the edited collections Love Across the Atlantic (2019) and After Happily Ever After: Romantic Comedy in the Post Romantic Age (2021). She tweets @romcomresearch. Vorwort Examines the intersection of gender and cultural politics in the reception of contemporary romantic comedy. Zusammenfassung In Guilty Pleasures , Alice Guilluy examines the reception of contemporary Hollywood romantic comedy by European audiences. She offers a new look at the romantic comedy genre through a qualitative study of its consumption by actual audiences. In doing so, she attempts to challenge traditional critiques of the genre as trite “escapism” at best, and dangerous “guilty pleasure” at worst. Despite this cultural anxiety, little work has been done on the genre’s real audiences. Guilluy addresses this gap by presenting the results of a major qualitative study of the genre’s reception, based on interview research with rom-com viewers in Britain, France and Germany, focusing on Sweet Home Alabama (2002, dir. Andy Tennant). Throughout the interviews, participants attempted to distance themselves from what they described as the “typical” rom-com viewer: the uneducated, gullible, overly emotional (American) woman. Guilluy calls this fantasy figure the “phantom spectatrix”. Guilluy complements this with a critical examination of the press reviews of the 20 biggest-grossing rom-coms at the worldwide box-office in order to contextualise the findings of her audience research. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgementsTranscription ConventionsSeries Editors' ForewordIntroduction: ‘Lights, action… and pure treacle’1. ‘Health warning: high-sugar content’: The Rom-com and the Critics2. ‘The pudding works splendidly’: Genre, Emotions and Pleasure3. ‘Candy-pink cage?’ Gender, Feminism and the Phantom Viewer4. ‘Chomping on a burger with a glass of coke’: the Americanness of Romantic ComedyConclusion: ‘Cinder-fuckin’-rella’EndnotesWorks CitedAppendix 1: Semi-Structured Interview QuestionsAppendix 2: Participant TablesAppendix 3: Sweet Home Alabama SynopsisIndex...
