After "Happily Ever After": Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age
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AlbakiReads Editorial A critical look at how contemporary rom-coms rethink love, coupling, and convention
A critical look at how contemporary rom-coms rethink love, coupling, and convention
Edited by Maria San Filippo, this fifteen-chapter collection examines romantic comedy beyond the familiar promise of a tidy ending. It considers recent screen works that address intimacy amid changing relationship norms, including marriage equality, reproductive politics, hook-up culture, and technology-enabled sex. The volume also tracks formal shifts such as genre hybridity, serial storytelling, “uncoupling” comedy, and radical variations on the rom-com. Drawing on feminist, queer, postcolonial, and race studies, its essays question the genre’s longstanding assumptions about normative coupling and its exclusions of racial and sexual minorities, while attending to more inclusive representations across age and ability.
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- Students and scholars of film, media, gender, and cultural studies
- Viewers interested in contemporary romantic comedy and its evolving conventions
- Readers exploring feminist, queer, postcolonial, and race-based approaches to screen media
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Romantic comedyIntimacy and relationshipsGenre hybridityQueer and racial representationSexual politics
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Book Overview In defiance of the alleged "death of romantic comedy," After "Happily Ever After" Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age edited by Mari...
In defiance of the alleged "death of romantic comedy," After "Happily Ever After" Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age edited by Maria San Filippo attests to rom-com's continuing vitality in new modes and forms that reimagine and rejuvenate the genre in ideologically, artistically, and commercially innovative ways. No longer the idyllic fairy tale, today's romantic comedies ponder the realities and complexities of intimacy, fortifying the genre's gift for imagining human connection through love and laughter.
It has often been observed that the rom-com's "happily ever after" trope enables the genre to avoid addressing the challenges of coupled life. This volume's contributors confront how recent rom-coms contend with a "post-romantic age" of romantic disillusionment and seismically shifting emotional and relational bonds. Fifteen chapters contemplate the resurgence of the "radical romantic comedy" and uncoupling comedy, new approaches in genre hybridity and serial narrative, and how recent rom-coms deal with divisive topical issues and contemporary sexual mores from reproductive politics and marriage equality to hook-up culture and technology-enabled sex. Rom-coms remain underappreciated and underexamined-and still largely defined within Hollywood's parameters of culturally normative coupling and its persistent marginalization of racial and sexual minorities. Making the case for taking romantic comedy seriously, this volume employs critical perspectives drawn from feminist, queer, postcolonial, and race studies to critique the genre's homogeneity and social and sexual conservatism, recognizing innovative works inclusive of LGBTQ people, people of color, and the differently aged and abled.
Encompassing a rich range of screen media from the last decade, After "Happily Ever After" celebrates works that disrupt and subvert rom-com fantasy and formula so as to open audience's eyes along with our hearts. This volume is intended for all readers with an interest in film, media, and gender studies.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 362 | Language: English | Publisher: WAYNE ST UNIV PR | ISBN: 081434674X
FormatPaperback
Pages362
LanguageEnglish
ISBN081434674X
EAN9780814346747
PublisherWAYNE ST UNIV PR
Publication Date2021-05-18
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight1.12 Pounds
Length9.0 Inches
Width6.0 Inches
Height0.79 Inches
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