View source for "Rom-Coms" Academic Bibliography

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==A-C==

;Abbott, Stacey and Deborah Jermyn. : "Introduction - A Lot Like Love: The Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema." ''Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema''. Ed. Stacey Abbott and Deborah Jermyn. London: I. B. Tauris, 2009. 1-?

;Abbott, Stacey. : "Prom-Coms: Reliving the Dreams and Nightmares of High-School Romance." ''Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema''. Ed. Stacey Abbott and Deborah Jermyn. London: I. B. Tauris, 2009. 52-??.

;Bowdre, Karen. : "Romantic Comedies and the Raced Body." ''Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema''. Ed. Stacey Abbott and Deborah Jermyn. London: I. B. Tauris, 2009. 105-???.

;Burns, Amy, 2011. : "'Tell me all about your new man': (Re)Constructing Masculinity in Contemporary Chick Texts." ''Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network'' 4.1. [http://journalhosting.org/meccsa-pgn/index.php/netknow/issue/current/showToc Links to abstract and pdf]

;Cavell, Stanley. : ''Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard UP, 1981.

;Combe, Kirk. : "Bourgeois Rakes in Wedding Crashers: Feudal to Neo-Liberal Articulations in Modern Comedic Discourse." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 46.2 (2013): 338–357. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12029/abstract Excerpt.]

==D-F==

;Deleyto, Celestino. : ''The Secret Life of Romantic Comedy''. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2009.

;Deleyto, Celestino, 2010. : “Tales of the Millennium (Park): the Happy Ending and the Magic Cityscape of Contemporary Romantic Comedy.” ''Happy Endings and Films''. Eds. Armelle Parey, Isabelle Roblin and Dominique Sipière. Paris: Michele Houdiard. 103-114.

;Deleyto, Celestino. 2011. : “The Comic, the Serious and the Middle: Desire and Space in Contemporary Film Romantic Comedy.” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/the-comic-the-serious-and-the-middle-desire-and-space-in-contemporary-film-romantic-comedy-by-celestino-deleyto/]

;Delveroudi, Elisa-Anna. : “H Politiki stis Komodies tou Ellinikou Kinimatografou.” Istorika, 14/26 (1997): 146-165. 

;DiBattista, Maria. : ''Fast-Talking Dames''. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale UP, 2001.

;Dodd, Alan and Martin Fradley. : "'I Believe that if I Haven't Found my Prince Charming Already, that I Will; or He Will Find Me, If He Hasn't Already': Jennifer Lopez, Romantic Comedy and Contemporary Stardom." ''Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema''. Ed. Stacey Abbott and Deborah Jermyn. London: I. B. Tauris, 2009. 190-???.

;Dowd, James J. and Nicole R. Pallotta. : “The End of Romance: The Demystification of Love in the Postmodern Age” ''Sociological Perspectives'' 43.4 (2000): 549-580. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/1389548 Abstract]

;Evans, Peter William and Celestino Deleyto, eds. : ''Terms of Endearment: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1980s and 1990s''. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1998.

;Ferriss, Suzanne, and Mallory Young. : "Introduction: Chick Flicks and Chick Culture." ''Chick Flicks: Contemporary Women at the Movies''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2008. 1-25. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KZ3oqbNWV0AC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

==G-I==

;Gehring, Wes D. : ''Romantic vs. Screwball Comedy: Charting the Difference''. ????: Scarecrow Press, 2002.

;Glitre, Kathrina. : ''Hollywood Romantic Comedy: States of the Union 1934-1965''. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2006.

;Grindon, Leger. : ''The Hollywood Romantic Comedy: Conventions, History and Controversies''. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. [http://jprstudies.org/2012/10/review-the-hollywood-romantic-comedy-conventions-history-and-controversies-by-leger-grindon/ Review by Betty Kaklamanidou]

;Harbidge, Lesley. : "A New Direction in Comedian Comedy." ''Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'', ''Punch-Drunk Love'' and the Post-Comedian Rom-Com." ''Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema''. Ed. Stacey Abbott and Deborah Jermyn. London: I. B. Tauris, 2009. 176-???.

;Harrod, Mary. : "The réalisatrice and the rom-com in the 2000s." ''Studies in French Cinema'' 12.3 (2012): 227-240. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/sfc/2012/00000012/00000003/art00004 Abstract]

;Harvey, James. : ''Romantic Comedy in Hollywood, from Lubitsch to Sturges''. 1987. New York: Da Capo, 1998.

;Hefner, Veronica. : ''From Love at First Sight to Soul Mate: Romantic Ideals in Popular Films and Their Association with Young People's Beliefs about Relationships''. PhD thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011. ["I conducted two studies that explored the nature of romantic ideals in romantic comedy films and their influence on viewer endorsement of romantic beliefs."] [https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/24232/Hefner_Veronica.pdf?sequence=1 Pdf]

;Hines, Claire. : "Armed and Fabulous: ''Miss Congeniality'''s Queer Rom-Com." ''Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema''. Ed. Stacey Abbott and Deborah Jermyn. London: I. B. Tauris, 2009. 117-???.

;Hobbs, Alex. : "Romancing the Crone: Hollywood’s Recent Mature Love Stories." ''Journal of American Culture'' 36.1 (2013): 42-51. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jacc.12012/abstract Excerpt]

==J-L==

;Jermyn, Deborah. : "I Heart NY: The Rom-Com’s Love Affair with New York." ''Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema''. Ed. Stacey Abbott and Deborah Jermyn. London: I. B. Tauris, 2009. 9-24.

;Jermyn, Deborah. : “Unlikely Heroines: 'Women of a Certain Age' and Romantic Comedy.” ''CineAction'' 85 (2011): 26–33. [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-269691789.html Excerpt]

;Jermyn, Deborah & Janet McCabe. : "Sea of love: place, desire and the beaches of romantic comedy." ''Continuum'' 27.5 (2013): 603-616. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2013.824858 Abstract]

;Johnson, K.R., & Holmes, B.M. : "Contradictory messages: A content analysis of Hollywood-produced romantic comedy feature films." ''Communication Quarterly'' 57 (2009): 352-373.[http://www.attachmentresearch.org/pdfs/Johnson%20&%20Holmes%20Comm%20Quarterly%20draft.pdf]

;Kaklamanidou, Betty. : “The New Millennium Hollywood Romantic Comedy: Charting a Genre’s History.” ''Gender and Genre''. Eds. Kornelia Slavova & Isabelle Boof-Vermesse. Bulgaria: Sofia University Press, 2010. 167-178.

;Kaklamanidou, Betty. : “‘The Bells Are Ringing for Me and My Gal’: Marriage and Gender in the Contemporary Greek Romantic Comedy.” ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 2.1, 2011.[http://jprstudies.org/2011/10/%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98the-bells-are-ringing-for-me-and-my-gal%E2%80%99-marriage-and-gender-in-the-contemporary-greek-romantic-comedy%E2%80%9D-by-betty-kaklamanidou]

;Kaklamanidou, Betty. : ''Genre, Gender and the Effects of Neoliberalism: The New Millennium Hollywood Rom Com''. Routledge, 2013. [http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415632744/ Details]

;Kaklamanidou, Betty. : “The Greek ‘American’ Dream: The Semiotics of the Greek Romantic Comedy.” ''Semiotics and ideo-logies''. Eds. Grigoris Pashalidis & Eleni Hodolidou. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, in Greek. (forthcoming).

;Kartalou, Athena. : “Gender, Professional, and Class Identities in ''Miss Director'' and ''Modern Cinderella''.” ''Journal of Modern Greek Studies'', Vol. 18/1, (2000): 105-118. [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/journal_of_modern_greek_studies/v018/18.1kartalou.pdf Abstract]

;Kendall, Elizabeth. : ''The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s''. ????: Cooper Square Press, 2002.

;Kirkland, Ewan. : "Romantic Comedy and the Construction of Heterosexuality." ''Scope'' 9 (2007).[http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/article.php?issue=9&id=957]

;Krutnik, Frank. : “Conforming Passions?: Contemporary Romantic Comedy.” ''Genre and Contemporary Hollywood''. Steve Neale (ed). London: British Film Institute, 2002. 130-47.

;Lapsley, Robert and Michael Westlake. : “From Casablanca to Pretty Woman: The Politics of Romance.” ''Screen'' 33.1 (1992): 27-49. [http://screen.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/33/1/27 Excerpt]

==M-O==

;McCabe, Janet. : "Lost in Transition: Problems of Modern (Heterosexual) Romance and the Catatonic Male Hero in the Post-Feminist Age." ''Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema''. Ed. Stacey Abbott and Deborah Jermyn. London: I. B. Tauris, 2009. 160-???.

;McDonald, Tamar Jeffers. : ''Romantic Comedy: Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre''. London: Wallflower, 2007. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9Bk-mkvdPYcC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;McDonald, Tamar Jeffers. : "Homme-com: Engendering Change in Contemporary Romantic Comedy." ''Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema''. Ed. Stacey Abbott and Deborah Jermyn. London: I. B. Tauris, 2009. 146-???.

;McRobbie, Angela. : "Post-Feminism and Popular Culture." ''Feminist Media Studies'' 4.3 (2004): 255-264. [Contains a section on "The film ''Bridget Jones’s Diary''" (261).]

;Mortimer, Claire. : ''Romantic Comedy''. London: Routledge, 2010. [http://books.google.com/books?id=4iZLoRJ89AQC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Neale, Steve. : “The Big romance or Something Wild?: romantic comedy today.” ''Screen'' 33.3 (1992): 284-99.

;Neale, Steve and, Frank Krutnik. : ''Popular Film and Television Comedy''. London & New York: Routledge, 1990.

;Negra, Diane. :  "Structural Integrity, Historical Reversion, and the Post-9/11 Chick Flick." ''Feminist Media Studies'' 8:1 (2008): 51-68.

==P-R==

;Paradeisi, Maria. : “H Parousiasi tis Gynaikas stis “komenti” tou ellinikou kinimatografou.” ''To Vima ton Koinonikon Epistimon'' 11, (1993): 185-204.

;Potter, Cherry. : ''I Love You But ...: Romance, Comedy and the Movies''. London: Methuen, 2002.

;Radner, Hilary. : "Le Divorce: Romance, Separation and Reconciliation." ''Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema''. Ed. Stacey Abbott and Deborah Jermyn. London: I. B. Tauris, 2009. 208-???.

;Radner, Hilary. : ''Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks, and Consumer Culture''. New York: Routledge, 2010. [http://books.google.com/books?id=abten_fd3FwC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

;Redfern, Nick. : "The Romance Film at the Box Office in Five European Countries, 2006 to 2010." Talk given at a conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance, 2012. [http://www.academia.edu/2203607/The_Romance_Film_at_the_Box_Office_in_Five_European_Countries_2006_to_2010]

;Redmond, Sean. : "The Healing Power of Romantic Love in Popular Indian Romantic Comedies: ''Raja Hindustani'': Home Elsewhere and Elsewhere Home." ''Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema''. Ed. Stacey Abbott and Deborah Jermyn. London: I. B. Tauris, 2009. 65-??.

;Roe, Annabelle Honess. : "A 'Special Relationship'? The Coupling of Britain and America in Working Title's Romantic Comedies." ''Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema''. Ed. Stacey Abbott and Deborah Jermyn. London: I. B. Tauris, 2009. 79-??.

;Rollet, Brigitte. : "Translatlantic Exchanges and Influences: ''Décalage horaire'' (''Jet Lag'') Gender and the Romantic Comedy ''à la française''.” ''Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema''. Ed. Stacey Abbott and Deborah Jermyn. London: I. B. Tauris, 2009. 92-104.

;Rubinfeld, Mark D. : ''Bound To Bond: Gender, Genre, and the Hollywood Romantic Comedy''. Connecticut: Praeger,  2001.

==S-U==

;Sharot, Stephen. : "Wealth and/or Love: Class and Gender in the Cross-Class Romance Films of the Great Depression." ''Journal of American Studies'' 47.1 (2013): 89-108. [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8833806 Abstract]

;Stassinopoulou, Maria. : “Ti Gureyei h Istoria ston Kinhmatografo?” ''Istorika'', 12/23, (1995): 421-437

;Stevens, Kyle. : "What a Difference a Gay Makes: Marriage in the 1990s Romantic Comedy." ''Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema''. Ed. Stacey Abbott and Deborah Jermyn. London: I. B. Tauris, 2009. 132-???.

;Stilwell, Robynn J. : "Music, Ritual, and Genre in Edward Burns' Indie Romantic Comedies." ''Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema''. Ed. Stacey Abbott and Deborah Jermyn. London: I. B. Tauris, 2009. 24-??.

;Sutton, Paul. : "''Après le Coup de Foudre'': Narrative, Love and Spectatorship in Groundhog Day." ''Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema''. Ed. Stacey Abbott and Deborah Jermyn. London: I. B. Tauris, 2009. 38-??.

;Thomas, Deborah. : ''Beyond Genre: Melodrama, Comedy and Romance in Hollywood Films''. Moffat: Cameron & Hollis, 2000. 

;Turim, Maureen. : "Women's Films: Comedy, Drama, Romance." ''Chick Flicks: Contemporary Women at the Movies''. Ed. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. New York: Routledge, 2008. 26- [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KZ3oqbNWV0AC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA26#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]

==V-Z==