Falling in love again : romantic comedy in contemporary cinema /: romantic comedy in contemporary cinema. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Stacey Abbott & Deborah Jermyn.
• Other Names: Abbott, Stacey; Jermyn, Deborah, 1970-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: London New York : I.B. Tauris Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 791.43617; Romantic comedy films -- History and criticism; Love in motion pictures; PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference; Love in motion pictures; Romantic comedy films; Liebesfilm; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441628909; 1441628908; 9780857712530; 0857712535
• Related ISBNs: 9781845117719; 1845117719
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-252) and index.; Note: Includes filmography and teleography.; Note: Print version record.
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