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American Romantic Comedy - LAST REVIEWED: 24 July 2012
- LAST MODIFIED: 24 July 2012
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199791286-0131
- LAST REVIEWED: 24 July 2012
- LAST MODIFIED: 24 July 2012
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199791286-0131
Babington, Bruce, and Peter William Evans. Affairs to Remember: The Hollywood Comedy of the Sexes. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1989.
An eccentric, insightful survey. Chapter 1 addresses Bringing Up Baby (1938) and screwball; chapter two profiles Ernst Lubitsch; chapter 3 covers Bob Hope, Mae West, and Woody Allen; chapter 4 is on the 1950s, particularly Pat and Mike (1952), Pillow Talk (1959), The Seven Year Itch (1955), and Douglas Sirk. The final chapter takes stock of romantic comedy in the 1970s and 1980s.
Deleyto, Celestino. The Secret Life of Romantic Comedy. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2009.
After discussing genre theory, this intelligent book presents a theory of romantic comedy addressing the importance of laughter, the function of the mid-plot, and the space of romantic comedy. Analyses of films on the margins of the genre follow: To Be or Not To Be (1942), Kiss Me, Stupid (1964), Rear Window (1954), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), and Before Sunset (2004).
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