Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy: Gender as Genre
John Alberti
This volume addresses the growing obsolescence of traditional constructions of masculine identity in popular romantic comedies by proposing an approach that combines gender and genre theory to examine the ongoing radical reconstruction of gender roles in these films. Alberti creates a unified theory of gender role change in the movies that combines the insights of both poststructuralist gender and narrative genre theory, avoiding binary approaches to the study of gender representation. He establishes the current "crises" in both gender representation and genre development within romantic comedies as examples of experimentation and change towards narratives that feature more egalitarian and less essentialist constructions of gender.
Année:
2013
Editeur::
Routledge
Langue:
english
Pages:
124
ISBN 10:
1136222901
ISBN 13:
9781136222900
Collection:
Routledge Advances in Film Studies, 24
Fichier:
PDF, 589 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2013