'Guilty Pleasures': European Audiences and Contemporary Hollywood Romantic Comedy
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AlbakiReads Editorial A study of who watches romantic comedies—and how they talk about watching them
A study of who watches romantic comedies—and how they talk about watching them
Alice Guilluy examines contemporary Hollywood romantic comedy through the responses of viewers in Britain, France, and Germany, using Sweet Home Alabama as a focal case. Grounded in interview research, the book considers how participants positioned themselves against a stereotype of the “typical” rom-com audience: the figure Guilluy terms the “phantom spectatrix.” The study pairs these audience accounts with an examination of press coverage of the 20 highest-grossing romantic comedies worldwide. Together, these strands place assumptions about escapism, gender, taste, and popular cinema alongside the ways actual viewers describe their own engagement with the genre.
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- Students and researchers of film genre and audience studies
- Readers interested in romantic comedy, gender, and cultural taste
- Those studying European responses to Hollywood cinema
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Romantic comedyAudience receptionGender stereotypesPopular culture and tasteHollywood cinema in Europe
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Book Overview In Guilty Pleasures, Alice Guilluy examines the reception of contemporary Hollywood romantic comedy by European audiences. She offers a n...
In Guilty Pleasures, Alice Guilluy examines the reception of contemporary Hollywood romantic comedy by European audiences. She offers a new look at the romantic comedy genre through a qualitative study of its consumption by actual audiences. In doing so, she attempts to challenge traditional critiques of the genre as trite "escapism" at best, and dangerous "guilty pleasure" at worst. Despite this cultural anxiety, little work has been done on the genre's real audiences. Guilluy addresses this gap by presenting the results of a major qualitative study of the genre's reception, based on interview research with rom-com viewers in Britain, France and Germany, focusing on Sweet Home Alabama (2002, dir. Andy Tennant). Throughout the interviews, participants attempted to distance themselves from what they described as the "typical" rom-com viewer: the uneducated, gullible, overly emotional (American) woman. Guilluy calls this fantasy figure the "phantom spectatrix". Guilluy complements this with a critical examination of the press reviews of the 20 biggest-grossing rom-coms at the worldwide box-office in order to contextualise the findings of her audience research.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 304 | Language: English | Publisher: BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC | ISBN: 1350240354
FormatPaperback
Pages304
LanguageEnglish
ISBN1350240354
EAN9781350240353
PublisherBLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC
Publication Date2023-05-18
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight0.77 Pounds
Length8.5 Inches
Width5.5 Inches
Height0.63 Inches
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