After "happily ever after" : romantic comedy in the post-romantic age / edited by Maria San Filippo ; foreword by Tamar Jeffers McDonald.
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, artistic...
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Detroit, Michigan :
Wayne State University Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword: Romantic Comedy Today: Making Progress Always or Only Maybe?
- Introduction: Love Actually: Romantic Comedy since the Aughts
- Act 1. What's New Is Old: Regenerating Romcom
- 1. We Found Love in a Hopeless Place: Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age
- 2. Comedy and Melodrama from Sunrise to Midnight: Genre and Gender in Richard Linklater's Before Series
- 3. From Jane to Mindy: The Politics of Narrative Control in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy
- 4. "Third-Act Romances" in Contemporary American Film and Television
- 5. Queer Romance in Take My Wife: How the Television Rom-Sitcom Gives New Life to the Genre
- Act 2. Love in a Time of Precarity: Romcom Realism
- 6. In Love and Up in Smoke: Harold & Kumar and the Romantic Turn of the Post-9/11 Stoner Comedy
- 7. Romance as Business in the Capitalist Metropolis: Johnnie To's Don't Go Breaking My Heart 1 and 2
- 8. Obvious Child, Bookshops, and Postcrisis Romcom Urbanism
- 9. Connecting with Strangers: Cosmopolitanism, Romance, and Hospitality in Transnational Romantic Comedy
- 10. "Money Can't Buy Me Love": Radical Right-Wing Populism in French Romantic Comedies of the 2010s
- Act 3. Reimagining "Happily Ever After"
- 11. The Radical Middle: Jane the Virgin, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and the Subversive Potential of the Television Post-Romcom
- 12. The Awkward Truth: Fractured Romance and the Art of Decoupling in the Films of Hong Sang-soo
- 13. Addicted to Love: The Productive Pathology of the Romantic Comedy in the Netflix Series Love
- 14. Breaking Upwards: The Creative Uncoupling of Desiree Akhavan and Ingrid Jungermann
- 15. "I fantasize sometimes about being alone ... being in a quiet room, by myself, with no one touching me": "Wrong-coms" and the End of Marriage in Contemporary Romantic Comedy.