Romantic Comedy Books

The Hollywood Romantic Comedy

by Leger Grindon

2011

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 …

Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy

by John Alberti

2013

This volume addresses the growing obsolescence of traditional constructions of masculine identity in popular romantic comedies by proposing an approach that combines gender and genre theory to examine the ongoing radical reconstruction of g…

€46.43 list price

Passionate Love and Popular Cinema

by Erica Todd

2013

This book analyses the romantic drama and the way that passionate love is presented as the central storyline in popular cinema, drawing upon genre studies and sociology. Exploring the passionate love story as a cinematic form, it also contr…

Romantic Comedy in Hollywood

by James Harvey

1998

In 1934 four movies—It Happened One Night, Twentieth Century, The Thin Man, and The Gay Divorcee—ushered in the golden age of the Hollywood romantic ("screwball") comedy. Slangy, playful, and "powerfully, glamorously in love …

Die Filmkomödie der Gegenwart

by Claudia Lillge

2008

Seit den 1990er Jahren hat sich eine neue Form der Filmkomödie etabliert: Manchmal leise und melancholisch, manchmal grotesk, doch immer bewusst mit den Traditionen des Genres und dem Wissen der Zuschauer um die geläufige Grammatik der Kino…

Chick Lit

by Annette Peitz

2010

Chick Lit, Unterhaltungsliteratur von, über und für Frauen, ist ein Phänomen, das nicht nur Verlagen unerhörte Gewinne einbringt und sich spätestens seit dem Erfolg von Bridget Jones und Sex and the City einen festen Platz innerhalb der Pop…

Mediale Dispositive

by Ivo Ritzer, Peter W. Schulze

2018

Der Band nimmt zum einen in einer Doppelperspektive die distinkten Genre-Rekurse der jeweiligen Einzelmedien in den Blick wie zum anderen auch die transmediale Zirkulation von Genre-Parametern. Dementsprechend beschäftigen sich die Beiträge…

€24.49 list price

The Unruly Woman

by Kathleen Rowe Karlyn

2011

Unruly women have been making a spectacle of themselves in film and on television from Mae West to Roseanne Arnold. In this groundbreaking work, Kathleen Rowe explores how the unruly woman—often a voluptuous, noisy, joke-making rebel or &qu…

€24.61 list price

New York Magazine

1979

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering every…

English Fiction of the Romantic Period, 1789-1830

by Gary Kelly

1989

English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830 is the first comprehensive historical survey of fiction from that period for many decades. It combines a clear awareness of the period's social history with recent developments in literar…

Shakespeare

by David M. Bergeron, Geraldo U. de Sousa

1987

"This updated edition should be welcomed by anyone interested in Shakespeare. Particularly useful are its pithy introductions and bibliographies on various critical approaches". -- David Bevington, editor of Complete Works of Shak…

Werner's Readings and Recitations

1891