Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy: Gender as Genre (Routledge Advances in Film Studies)

By: John Alberti

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 124 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781136222900
Related ISBNs:: 9780203097465, 9781138243347, 9781138243347, 9780415630658, 9780415630658
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 03/27/20
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Adult content:: No
Language:: English
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Categories:: Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies
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