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Informationen zum Autor Stacey Abbott is Reader in Film and Television Studies at University of Roehampton London, UK.Her most recent publications include Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century (2016), TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen (I.B. Tauris,2013), co-written with Lorna Jowett, and Supernatural: TV Goes to Hell (2011), co-edited with David Lavery from Middle Tennessee State University. televisual vampire. She was the Series Editor for the Investigating Cult TV series at I.B. Tauris, comprising sixteen books. Between 2014-2016, she was the President of the Whedon Studies Association and before joining the University of Roehampton, she worked as an Education Officer for the British Film Institute, organising lectures, seminars and conferences as part of the public cinema programme at BFI Southbank. Deborah Jermyn is a Reader in Film and Television at the University of Roehampton, UK. She is the author and editor of numerous books exploring women, feminism and popular culture including Female Celebrity and Ageing: Back in the Spotlight (2013), Sex and the City (2009) and Hollywood Transgressor: The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow (2003). 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 ...
