Pensum:
? Billy Mernit, Writing the Romantic Comedy (available on amazon.com)
? Tamar Jeffers McDonald, Romantic Comedy: Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre
? Celestino Deleyto, The Secret Life of Romantic Comedy (Introduction, Chapters, 1 and 4).
? Kathrina Glitre, Hollywood romantic Comedy: States of the Union, 1934-65
? Claire Mortimer, Romantic Comedy (Routledge Film Guidebooks) (Skip Chapter 5)
Pensum on Fronter:
? Kristine Brunovska Karnick, “Commitment and Reaffirmation in Hollywood Romantic Comedy” in Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins, eds., Classical Hollywood Comedy (NY: Routledge, 1994).
? Karen Bowdre, “Romantic Comedies and the Raced Body,” in Stacey Abbott and Deborah Jermyn, eds., Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema (NY: I.B. Tauris, 2009)
? Alan Dodd 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” in Stacey Abbott and Deborah Jermyn, eds., Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema (NY: I.B. Tauris, 2009)
Pensum via library database
? Deleyto, C. (2003). Between friends: Love and friendship in contemporary hollywood romantic comedy. Screen, 44(2), 167-182. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1804595?accountid=14699
? Gilmour, H. (1998). Different, except in a different way: Marriage, divorce, and gender in the hollywood comedy of remarriage. Journal of Film and Video, 50(2), 26-39. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/2168349?accountid=14699
? Greene, J. M. (2001). The road to reno: "the awful truth" and the hollywood comedy of remarriage. Film History, 13(4), 337-358. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/2189698?accountid=14699
? Jane M. Greene (2010) Hollywood's Production Code and Thirties Romantic Comedy, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 30:1, 55-73, DOI: 10.1080/01439680903577268 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01439680903577268
? Moddelmog, D. A. (2009). Can romantic comedy be gay? hollywood romance, citizenship, and same-sex marriage panic. Journal of Popular Film & Television, 36(4), 162-172. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/2080823?accountid=14699
? Morrison, A. (2010). Newfangled computers and old-fashioned romantic comedy: "you've got mail's" futuristic nostalgia. Canadian Journal of Film Studies = Revue Canadienne d'?tudes Cinematographiques, 19(1), 41-58. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/753503676?accountid=14699
? Perren, A. (2004). A big fat indie success story? press discourses surrounding the making and marketing of a "hollywood" movie. Journal of Film and Video, 56(2), 18-31. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/2168223?accountid=14699
Optional Readings (for papers) (check Nasjonalbiblioteket)
? Stanley Cavell, Pursuits of Happiness: the Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage (1981) 263 pp
? Steve Neale, Genre and Hollywood (London: Routledge, 2000)
? Peter William Evans, Celestino Deleyto, eds., Terms of Endearment: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1980s and 1990s (Edinburgh University Press, 1998).
? Leger Grindon, The Hollywood Romantic Comedy: Conventions, Histories, Controversies (2011) (190pp)
? Mark D. Rubinfeld, Bound to Bond: Gender, Genre, and the Hollywood Romantic Comedy (2001) 154 pp
? Wes D. Gehring, Romantic vs. Screwball Comedy: Charting the Difference (Studies in Film Genre), (2002) 242 pp
Optional Readings (on Fronter)
? Tina Olsin Lent, “Romantic Love and Friendship: The Redefinition of Gender Relations in Screwball Comedy,” in Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins, eds., Classical Hollywood Comedy (NY: Routledge, 1994).
Films:
The class will agree on a set of movies from the following. Those in bold will definitely be seen. Students may suggest other Hollywood Romantic Comedies also.
Classic Romantic Comedies
? It Happened One Night
? The Philadelphia Story
? Bringing Up Baby
? Adam’s Rib (Tracy and Hepburn cycle of Romantic Comedies)
Modern Romantic Comedies
? When Harry Met Sally
? Mama Mia
? The Proposal
? The Holiday
? Tootsie
? You’ve Got Mail
? It’s Complicated
? While You Were Sleeping
? Sabrina
? Never Been Kissed
? Kate and Leopold
? Murphy’s romance
Interracial Romantic Comedies
? Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
? Guess Who
? Corinna, Corinna
? Made in America
? Fools Rush In
? The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
? Soul Man
Racial/Ethnic Romantic Comedies
? For Love of Ivy
? Jumping the Broom
? About Last Night
? Just Wright
? Think Like a Man