Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy

Gender as Genre

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de John Alberti

Type

Studies

Sujet

Genre > Romantic films

Mots Clés

romantic comedy, masculinity

Année d'édition

2016

Editeur

Routledge

Collection

Routledge Advances in Film Studies

1ere édition

2013

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

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

ISBN

978-1-138-24334-7

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Description de l'ouvrage:
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.

À propos de l'auteur :
John Alberti is Professor of English and Director of Cinema Studies at Northern Kentucky University, USA.

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