Romantic Comedy: Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre

Romantic Comedy offers an introduction to the analysis of a popular but overlooked film genre. The book provides an overview of Hollywood's romantic comedy conventions, examining iconography, narrative patterns, and ideology. Chapters discuss important subgroupings within the genre: screwball sex comedy and the radical romantic comedy of the 1970s. A final chapter traces the lasting influence of these earlier forms within current romantic comedies. Films include: Pillow Talk (1959), Annie Hall (1977), and You've Got Mail (1998).

Author: Tamar Jeffers McDonald

Publisher: Wallflower Press

Publication Date: Apr 10, 2007

Number of Pages: 144 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1905674023

ISBN-13: 9781905674022