Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy: Gender as Genre

by John Alberti

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415630657
• ISBN13: 9780415630658
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.1"