"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.

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.[1]

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

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.

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-???.

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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.

Johnson, K.R., & Holmes, B.M. 

"Contradictory messages: A content analysis of Hollywood-produced romantic comedy feature films." Communication Quarterly 57 (2009): 352-373.[2]

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.[3]

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. 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).[4]

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. 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

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.

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Paradeisi, Maria. 

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

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

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- Excerpt