Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy - Gender as Genre (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Advances in Film Studies
Release date:	November 2016
First published:	2013
Authors:	John Alberti
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	124
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-24334-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism
LSN:	1-138-24334-5
Barcode:	9781138243347

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