Research Catalog

Title

Falling in love again : romantic comedy in contemporary cinema / edited by Stacey Abbott & Deborah Jermyn.

Publication

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Abbott, Stacey.
• Jermyn, Deborah, 1970-

Description

xiii, 252 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This anthology updates, revisits and reflects on today's romantic comedies. It considers the films and issues that illustrate the diversity of the genre, from the queer pleasures of 'Miss Congeniality' and the rom-com persona of J-Lo and Bill Murray to high school prom-coms and indie romantic comedies.

Subject

Romantic comedy films > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-252) and index.
• Includes filmography and teleography.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction-a lot like love: the romantic comedy in contemporary cinema / Stacey Abbott and Deborah Jermyn -- I [heart] NY: the rom-com's love affair with New York City / Deborah Jermyn -- Music, ritual, and genre in Edward Burn's indie romantic comedies / Robynn J. Stilwell -- Aprés le coup de foudre: narrative, love and spectatorship in Groundhog day / Paul Sutton -- Prom-comes: reliving the dreams and nightmares of high-school romance / Stacy Abbott -- The healing power of romantic love in popular Indian romantic comedies: Raja Hindustani: home elsewhere and elsewhere home / Sean Redmond -- A 'special relationship'? The coupling of Britain and America in working title's romantic comedies / Annabelle Honess Roe -- Transatlantic exchanges and influences: Décalage horaire (Jet lag), gender and the romantic comedy à la française / Brigitte Rollet -- Romantic comedies and the raced body / Karen Bowdre -- Armed and fabulous: Miss congeniality's queer rom-com / Claire Hines -- What a difference a gay makes: marriage in the 1990s romantic comedy / Kyle Stevens -- Homme-com: engendering change in contemporary romantic comedy / Tamar Jeffers McDonald -- Lost in transition: problems of modern (heterosexual) romance and the catatonic male hero in the post-feminist age / Janet McCabe -- A new direction in comedian comedy?: Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Punch-drunk love and the post-comedian rom-com / Lesley Harbidge -- 'I believe that if I haven't found my prince charming already, that I will; or he will find me, if he hasn't ready': Jennifer Lopez, romantic comedy and contemporary stardom / Alan Dodd and Martin Fradley -- Le divorce: romance, separation and reconciliation / Hilary Radner.

ISBN

• 9781845117719 (pbk.)
• 1845117719 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 230951934
• SCSB-11310281

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library