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Love is a recurring element at the movies. While many different
types of love are depicted in popular Hollywood cinema, there
appears to be two types of texts that focus primarily on 'romance',
or the intimate relations between two people. While the romantic
comedy foregrounds companionate love, the romantic drama promotes
passionate love. Given the wealth of research into the romantic
comedy, Erica Todd focuses on the romantic drama and the ways that
passionate love informs popular texts. Due to the short-term nature
of passionate love and its association with irrationality, films
that endorse this type of love often depict intense, idealistic
courtships that usually end in suffering. Although the lovers in
these films tend to separate, the significance of their time
together remains through themes like memory and nostalgia.
This book analyses the romantic drama and the way that passionate
love is presented as the central storyline in popular cinema,
drawing upon genre studies and sociology. Exploring the passionate
love story as a cinematic form, it also contributes, through
comparison, to research on the romantic comedy.
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