Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy

Gender as Genre
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-415-63065-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 136 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 361 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alberti, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy: Gender and/as Genre 2. "'I Love You, Man': Gender Genre Instability in the Bromance" 3. The Emergence of the Anxious Romance:Mumblecore, Neorealism, and Gender Play 4. Greenberg: The Anxious Romance and the Future(s) of the Romantic Comedy

Über Autor(innen)

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