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

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 133

• Publisher
• Wallflower Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781905674022

• Genres
• film

• Release date
• 2007