John Alberti

Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy (eBook, PDF)

Gender as Genre

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume addresses the growing obsolescence of traditional constructions of masculine identity in popular cinema by proposing an approach that combines gender and genre theory to examine the ongoing radical reconstruction of gender roles in contemporary genre movies.In so doing, the project builds on existing scholarship and cinema theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136222900
• Artikelnr.: 39910543

Autorenporträt

John Alberti is Professor of English and Director of Cinema Studies at Northern Kentucky University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy: Gender and/as Genre 2. "'I Love You
Man': Gender Genre Instability in the Bromance" 3. The Emergence of the Anxious Romance:Mumblecore
Neorealism
and Gender Play 4. Greenberg: The Anxious Romance and the Future(s) of the Romantic Comedy