The Hollywood romantic comedy : conventions, history, controversies /

• Main Author: Grindon, Leger, 1949-
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
• Series: New approaches to film genre.
• Subjects: Romantic comedy films > United States > History and criticism.; Love in motion pictures.; Fine Arts.; ART > Film & Video.; PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.; Romantic comedy films.; United States.; Electronic books.; Criticism, interpretation, etc.

The most up-to-date study of the Hollywood romantic comedy film, from the development of sound to the twenty-first century, this book examines the history and conventions of the genre and surveys the controversies arising from the critical responses to these films.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• History, cycles and society
• Thinking seriously about laughter and romance
• What is the trouble in paradise? : Trouble in paradise (1932)
• Jailbreak : His girl friday (1940)
• The home front romantic comedy and The miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
• Anatomy lesson : Adam's rib (1949)
• Riding sidesaddle in Some like it hot (1959)
• Counter conventions and cultural change in The graduate (1967)
• The trials of partnership in Annie Hall (1977)
• Friendship, sex and courtship in When Harry met Sally (1989)
• Parody and the grotesque in There's something about Mary (1998)
• Women's ambivalence in Waitress.