After \"Happily Ever After\"
Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age
By Tamar J. Jeffers MacDonald | Publisher: Wayne State University Press
About the book
Explores romantic comedy’s revitalizing response to shifting sexual and social mores of the past decade.After \"Happily Ever After\": Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic AgeIt 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.After \"Happily Ever After\"
Editions of After \"Happily Ever After\"
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780814346730
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780814346747
- EBook
- ISBN 9780814346754
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Explores romantic comedy’s revitalizing response to shifting sexual and social mores of the past decade.After \"Happily Ever After\": Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic AgeIt 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.After \"Happily Ever After\"
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Explores romantic comedy’s revitalizing response to shifting sexual and social mores of the past decade.After \"Happily Ever After\": Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic AgeIt 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.After \"Happily Ever After\"
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in After \"Happily Ever After\"?
The Arts > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film: styles and genres
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You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780814346730
Is After \"Happily Ever After\" part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
Who is/are the Author/s of the book After \"Happily Ever After\"?
Tamar J. Jeffers MacDonald
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After \"Happily Ever After\" is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780814346730) and paperback(ISBN 9780814346747) and ebook(ISBN 9780814346754)
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