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;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-??.
 
;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-??.
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;Alberti, John. : '"I Love You, Man": Bromances, the Construction of Masculinity, and the Continuing Evolution of the Romantic Comedy',  ''Quarterly Review of Film and Video'' 30.2 (2013): 159–172.[https://www.academia.edu/2553478/_I_Love_You_Man_Bromances_the_Construction_of_Masculinity_and_the_Continuing_Evolution_of_the_Romantic_Comedy_]
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;Ascheid, Antje. : "The Romantic Comedy and its Other: Representations of Romance in German Cinema since 1990." ''Generic Histories of German Cinema: Genre and its Derivations''. Ed. Jaimey Fisher. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2013. 243-260.[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DXGBAQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA243&ots=oBRXScImTm&lr=lang_en&pg=PA243#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]
  
 
;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-???.
 
;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-???.
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;Brook, Heather. : "Engaging Marriage: Rom Coms and Fairy Tale Endings." ''The Happiness Illusion: How the Media Sold Us a Fairytale''. Ed. Luke Hockley and Nadi Fadina. Hove, East Sussex: Routledge, 2015. 145-161. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yaPwCQAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA145#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]
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;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.
 
;Cavell, Stanley. : ''Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard UP, 1981.
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;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.]
  
 
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;Deleyto, Celestino. : ''The Secret Life of Romantic Comedy''. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2009.
 
;Deleyto, Celestino. : ''The Secret Life of Romantic Comedy''. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2009.
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;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.
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;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/]
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;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.
 
;DiBattista, Maria. : ''Fast-Talking Dames''. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale UP, 2001.
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;Gehring, Wes D. : ''Romantic vs. Screwball Comedy: Charting the Difference''. ????: Scarecrow Press, 2002.
 
;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.
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;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.
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;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]
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;Guilluy, Alice. : 'The Lady Knows the Recipe: Challenges of Carrying Out a Feminist Study of Hollywood Romantic Comedy', ''Bulletin of Sociological Methodology''. Online First, October 2018. [https://doi.org/10.1177/0759106318795219]
  
 
;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-???.
 
;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-???.
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;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]
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;Harrod, Mary. : ''From France with Love: Gender and Identity in French Romantic Comedy''. London: I. B. Tauris, 2015. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Bhm_CQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]
  
 
;Harvey, James. : ''Romantic Comedy in Hollywood, from Lubitsch to Sturges''. 1987. New York: Da Capo, 1998.
 
;Harvey, James. : ''Romantic Comedy in Hollywood, from Lubitsch to Sturges''. 1987. New York: Da Capo, 1998.
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;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-???.
 
;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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;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]
  
 
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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.
 
;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.
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;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]
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;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]
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;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]
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;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.
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;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]
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;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]
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;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).
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;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.
 
;Kendall, Elizabeth. : ''The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s''. ????: Cooper Square Press, 2002.
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;Kirkland, Ewan. : "Romantic Comedy and the Construction of Heterosexuality." ''Scope'' 9 (2007).[http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/article.php?issue=9&id=957]
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;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]
 
;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]
  
 
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;MacDowell, James. : ''Happy Endings in Hollywood Cinema: Cliché, Convention and the Final Couple''. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2013. [http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748680177 Synopsis] [https://www.academia.edu/7754089/Does_the_Hollywood_Happy_Ending_Exist_2010_ Introduction]
  
 
;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-???.
 
;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-???.
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;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-???.
 
;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-???.
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;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).]
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;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]
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;Neale, Steve. : “The Big romance or Something Wild?: romantic comedy today.” ''Screen'' 33.3 (1992): 284-99.
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;Neale, Steve and, Frank Krutnik. : ''Popular Film and Television Comedy''. London & New York: Routledge, 1990.
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;Negra, Diane. :  "Structural Integrity, Historical Reversion, and the Post-9/11 Chick Flick." ''Feminist Media Studies'' 8:1 (2008): 51-68.
  
 
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;Paradeisi, Maria. : “H Parousiasi tis Gynaikas stis “komenti” tou ellinikou kinimatografou.” ''To Vima ton Koinonikon Epistimon'' 11, (1993): 185-204.
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;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. : "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]
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;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]
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;Raghu, Jyoti. : "True Love’s Kiss and Happily Ever After: the religion of love in American film", ''Journal of Popular Romance Studies'' 5.1 (2015).[http://jprstudies.org/2015/08/true-loves-kiss-and-happily-ever-after-the-religion-of-love-in-american-filmby-jyoti-raghu/]
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;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-??.
 
;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-??.
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;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.
 
;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.
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;Romancing the Zombie. : ''Romancing the Zombie: Essays on the Undead as Significant "Other"''. Ed. Ashley Szanter and Jessica K. Richards. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2017. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lp0xDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Excerpt]
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;Rubinfeld, Mark D. : ''Bound To Bond: Gender, Genre, and the Hollywood Romantic Comedy''. Connecticut: Praeger,  2001.
  
 
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;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]
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;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-???.
 
;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-???.
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;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-??.
 
;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-??.
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;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]
 
;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]
  
 
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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-??.
Alberti, John. 
'"I Love You, Man": Bromances, the Construction of Masculinity, and the Continuing Evolution of the Romantic Comedy', Quarterly Review of Film and Video 30.2 (2013): 159–172.[1]
Ascheid, Antje. 
"The Romantic Comedy and its Other: Representations of Romance in German Cinema since 1990." Generic Histories of German Cinema: Genre and its Derivations. Ed. Jaimey Fisher. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2013. 243-260.Excerpt
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-???.
Brook, Heather. 
"Engaging Marriage: Rom Coms and Fairy Tale Endings." The Happiness Illusion: How the Media Sold Us a Fairytale. Ed. Luke Hockley and Nadi Fadina. Hove, East Sussex: Routledge, 2015. 145-161. Excerpt
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.
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. Excerpt.

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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.[2]
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. 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

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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. Review by Betty Kaklamanidou
Guilluy, Alice. 
'The Lady Knows the Recipe: Challenges of Carrying Out a Feminist Study of Hollywood Romantic Comedy', Bulletin of Sociological Methodology. Online First, October 2018. [3]
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. Abstract
Harrod, Mary. 
From France with Love: Gender and Identity in French Romantic Comedy. London: I. B. Tauris, 2015. Excerpt
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."] 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. Excerpt

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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.
Jermyn, Deborah. 
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