Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Contents:
Introduction-a lot like love: the romantic comedy in contemporary cinema -- I [heart] NY: the rom-com's love affair with New York City -- Music, ritual, and genre in Edward Burn's indie romantic comedies -- Aprés le coup de foudre: narrative, love and spectatorship in Groundhog day -- Prom-comes: reliving the dreams and nightmares of high-school romance -- The healing power of romantic love in popular Indian romantic comedies: Raja Hindustani: home elsewhere and elsewhere home -- A 'special relationship'? The coupling of Britain and America in working title's romantic comedies -- Transatlantic exchanges and influences: Décalage horaire (Jet lag), gender and the romantic comedy à la française -- Romantic comedies and the raced body -- Armed and fabulous: Miss congeniality's queer rom-com -- What a difference a gay makes: marriage in the 1990s romantic comedy -- Homme-com: engendering change in contemporary romantic comedy -- Lost in transition: problems of modern (heterosexual) romance and the catatonic male hero in the post-feminist age -- A new direction in comedian comedy?: Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Punch-drunk love and the post-comedian rom-com -- '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 -- Le divorce: romance, separation and reconciliation.
Summary:
This anthology updates, revisits and reflects on today's romantic comedies. It considers the films and issues that illustrate the diversity of the genre, from the queer pleasures of 'Miss Congeniality' and the rom-com persona of J-Lo and Bill Murray to high school prom-coms and indie romantic comedies.
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