Terms of Endearment Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1980s And 1990s

Name: Terms of Endearment Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1980s And 1990s
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ISBN: 9780748608850

ISBN-10: 0748608850

ISBN-13: 9780748608850

Edition: 1998

Authors: Peter William Evans, Celestino Deleyto, Peter William Evans

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Using a wide range of popular mainstream films, this book looks at how recent cultural discourses on gender and sexuality have found their way into the apparently inflexible structure of romantic comedy.

Book details

List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 6/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



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List of Contributors


Acknowledgements



Introduction: Surviving Love




Love Lies: Romantic Fabrication in Contemporary Romantic Comedy




'I Think I Could Fall in Love with Him': Victor/Victoria and the 'Drag' of Romantic Comedy




Murphy's Romance: Romantic Love and the Everyday




Something Wild: Take a Walk on the Wild Side (But Be Home before Midnight)




Time Trips and Other Tropes: Peggy Sue Got Married and the Metaphysics of Romantic Comedy




Working Girl: A Case Study of Achievement by Women? New Opportunities, Old Realities




Love and Other Triangles: Alice and the Conventions of Romantic Comedy




The Fever and the Itch: Matching Plots in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever




Allison Anders's Gas Food Lodging: Independent Cinema and the New Romance




Meg Ryan, Megastar



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