Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy - Gender As Genre

Informationen zum Autor John Alberti is Associate Professor of English at Northern Kentucky University. Klappentext This volume addresses the growing obsolescence of traditional constructions of masculine identity in popular romantic comedies by proposing an approach that combines gender and genre theory to examine the ongoing radical reconstruction of gender roles in these films. Alberti creates a unified theory of gender role change in the movies that combines the insights of both poststructuralist gender and narrative genre theory, avoiding binary approaches to the study of gender representation. He establishes the current "crises" in both gender representation and genre development within romantic comedies as examples of experimentation and change towards narratives that feature more egalitarian and less essentialist constructions of gender. Zusammenfassung This volume addresses the growing obsolescence of traditional constructions of masculine identity in popular cinema by proposing an approach that combines gender and genre theory to examine the ongoing radical reconstruction of gender roles in contemporary genre movies.In so doing, the project builds on existing scholarship and cinema theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy: Gender and/as Genre 2. "'I Love You, Man': Gender Genre Instability in the Bromance" 3. The Emergence of the Anxious Romance:Mumblecore, Neorealism, and Gender Play 4. Greenberg : The Anxious Romance and the Future(s) of the Romantic Comedy

Product details

• Authors: John Alberti, Alberti John
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.11.2016
• EAN: 9781138243347
• ISBN: 978-1-138-24334-7
• No. of pages: 124
• Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Gender studies, gender groups, Film: styles & genres, Film Theory & Criticism, Film: styles and genres, Film history, theory or criticism