Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy

Gender as Genre

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by John Alberti

Type

Studies

Subject

Genre > Romantic films

Keywords

romantic comedy, masculinity

Publishing date

2016

Publisher

Routledge

Collection

Routledge Advances in Film Studies

1st publishing

2013

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 124 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-1-138-24334-7

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Book Presentation:
This volume addresses the growing obsolescence of traditional constructions of masculine identity in popular romantic comedies by proposing an approach that combines gender and genre theory to examine the ongoing radical reconstruction of gender roles in these films. Alberti creates a unified theory of gender role change in the movies that combines the insights of both poststructuralist gender and narrative genre theory, avoiding binary approaches to the study of gender representation. He establishes the current "crises" in both gender representation and genre development within romantic comedies as examples of experimentation and change towards narratives that feature more egalitarian and less essentialist constructions of gender.

About the Author:
John Alberti is Professor of English and Director of Cinema Studies at Northern Kentucky University, USA.

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