"Rom-Coms" Academic Bibliography

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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. Links to abstract and pdf

Cavell, Stanley. 

Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard UP, 1981.

D-F

Deleyto, Celestino. 

The Secret Life of Romantic Comedy. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2009.

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. 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. 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. ????: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

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-???.

Harvey, James. 

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

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-???.

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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.

Kendall, Elizabeth. 

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

Lapsley, Robert and Michael Westlake. 

“From Casablanca to Pretty Woman: The Politics of Romance.” Screen 33.1 (1992): 27-49. 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. 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. Excerpt

Negra, Diane. 

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

P-R

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. Excerpt

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

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-??.

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- Excerpt