Hollywood Romantic Comedy

The most up-to-date study of the Hollywood romantic comedy film,
from the development of sound to the twenty-first century, this
book examines the history and conventions of the genre and surveys
the controversies arising from the critical responses to these
films.

* Provides a detailed interpretation of important romantic comedy
films from as early as 1932 to movies made in the twenty-first
century

* Presents a full analysis of the range of romantic comedy
conventions, including dramatic conflicts, characters, plots,
settings, and the function of humor

* Develops a survey of romantic comedy movies and builds a canon
of key films from Hollywood's classical era right up to the present
day

* Chapters work as discrete studies as well as within the larger
context of the book

Autorentext
Leger Grindon is Professor of Film and Media Culture at Middlebury College, USA. He has written widely on film and is the author of Shadows on the Past: Studies in the Historical Fiction Film (1994) and Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema (2011).

Klappentext
Though rarely explored in analytical detail, the romantic comedy remains a stalwart contributor to Hollywood entertainment. This book offers a comprehensive history of the Hollywood romantic comedy film, from the coming of sound to the twenty-first century, examining the conventions of the genre and surveying the controversies arising from the critical responses to these films. Hollywood's romantic comedies can be seen as a series of productions whose form and meaning change in response to conditions in the film industry, courtship culture, and society at large. This book provides an essential overview of the continuities within the genre as well as its historical evolution. A full analysis is provided of the range of romantic comedy conventions, including dramatic conflicts, characters, plots, settings, and the function of humor. In doing so, Leger Grindon develops a survey of historical cycles and clusters and builds a canon of key films from Hollywood's classical era right up to the present day, which are analyzed in detail in the second part of the book. Films analyzed include Trouble in Paradise, His Girl Friday, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Adam's Rib, Some Like It Hot, The Graduate, Annie Hall, When Harry Met Sally, There's Something About Mary, and Waitress.

Zusammenfassung
The most up-to-date study of the Hollywood romantic comedy film, from the development of sound to the twenty-first century, this book examines the history and conventions of the genre and surveys the controversies arising from the critical responses to these films. Provides a detailed interpretation of important romantic comedy films from as early as 1932 to movies made in the twenty-first century Presents a full analysis of the range of romantic comedy conventions, including dramatic conflicts, characters, plots, settings, and the function of humor Develops a survey of romantic comedy movies and builds a canon of key films from Hollywood's classical era right up to the present day Chapters work as discrete studies as well as within the larger context of the book

Inhalt
List of Plates ix Acknowledgements xi 1 Introduction 1 2 History, Cycles, and Society 25 3 Thinking Seriously About Laughter and Romance 67 4 Trouble in Paradise (1932): What is the Trouble in Paradise? 84 5 His Girl Friday (1940): Jailbreak! 96 6 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944): The Home Front Romantic Comedy 106 7 Adam's Rib (1949): Anatomy Lesson 117 8 Some Like It Hot (1959): Riding Sidesaddle 129 9 The Graduate (1967): Counter-Conventions and Cultural Change 139 10 Annie Hall (1977): The Trials of Partnership 150 11 When Harry Met Sally (1989): Friendship, Sex, and Courtship 160 12 There's Something About Mary (1998): Parody and the Grotesque 171 13 Waitress (2007): Women's Ambivalence 181 A Chronology of Prominent Hollywood Romantic Comedies 191 References 195 Index 201

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