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Informationen zum Autor Stacey Abbott is Senior Lecturer in Film and TV at Roehampton University. She is the author of 'Celluloid Vampires' (2007)! editor of 'Reading "Angel'" and co-editor of 'Investigating "Alias'"! both I.B. Tauris. She is Series Editor of Tauris' Investigating Cult TV Series. Deborah Jermyn is Senior Lecturer in Film and TV at Roehampton University. She is the author of 'Crime Watching: Investigating Real Crime TV' (I.B. Tauris! 2007) and 'Sex and the City' (forthcoming). Klappentext Revisits and reflects on romantic comedies. This book considers the films and issues that illustrate the diversity of the genre! from the pleasures of "Miss Congeniality" and the rom-com persona of J-Lo and Bill Murray! to high school prom-coms and indie romantic comedies. It also explores male-centred romances like "Wedding Crashers". Revisits and reflects on romantic comedies. This book considers the films and issues that illustrate the diversity of the genre, from the pleasures of "Miss Congeniality" and the rom-com persona of J-Lo and Bill Murray, to high school prom-coms and indie romantic comedies. It also explores male-centred romances like "Wedding Crashers". Zusammenfassung Revisits and reflects on romantic comedies. This book considers the films and issues that illustrate the diversity of the genre, from the pleasures of "Miss Congeniality" and the rom-com persona of J-Lo and Bill Murray, to high school prom-coms and indie romantic comedies. It also explores male-centred romances like "Wedding Crashers". Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgements and Dedication i-iiList of Contributors iii-vIntroduction - A Lot Like Love: The Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema 1Stacey Abbott and Deborah Jermyn1. I ? NY: Rom-Com’s Love Affair with New York City Deborah Jermyn 2. Music, Ritual, and Genre in Edward Burns’ Indie Romantic Comedies Robynn J. Stilwell 3. Après le coup de foudre: Narrative, Love and Spectatorship in Groundhog Day Paul Sutton 4. Prom-Coms: Reliving the Dreams and Nightmares of High School Romance Stacey Abbott5. The Healing Power of Romantic Love in Popular Indian Romantic Comedies: Raja Hindustani: Home Elsewhere and Elsewhere Home Sean Redmond6. A ‘Special Relationship’?: The Coupling of Britain and America in Working Title’s Romantic Comedies Annabelle Honess Roe 7. Transatlantic Exchanges and Influences: Décalage horaire (Jet Lag) Gender and the Romantic Comedy à la française Brigitte Rollet 8. Romantic Comedies and the Raced Body Karen Bowdre9. Armed and Fabulous: Miss Congeniality’s Queer Rom-Com Claire Hines 10. What a Difference a Gay Makes: Marriage in the 1990s Romantic Comedy Kyle Stevens 11. Hommecom: Engendering Change in Contemporary Romantic Comedy Tamar Jeffers McDonald 12. Lost in Transition: Problems of Modern (Heterosexual) Romance and the Catatonic Male Hero in the Post-Feminist Age Janet McCabe 13. A New Direction in Comedian Comedy?: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Punch Drunk Love & the Post-Comedian Rom-Com Lesley Harbidge 14. ‘I believe that if I haven’t found my Prince Charming already, that I will; or he will find me, if he hasn’t already’: Jennifer Lopez, Romantic Comedy and Contemporary Stardom Alan Dodd and Martin Fradley 15. Le Divorce: Romance, Separation and Reconciliation Hilary Radner Filmography Bibliography Index...
