Книга "Голливудская романтическая комедия. Конвенции, история и контроверсии" - это самое актуальное исследование жанра романтической комедии в Голливуде, начиная с эпохи зарождения звука и до наших дней. Книга рассматривает историю и традиции жанра, а также обзор противоречий, возникающих в связи с критическими отзывами на эти фильмы. В книге проводится детальный анализ важных фильмов романтической комедии, начиная с 1932 года и до фильмов, снятых в 21 веке. Также представлен полный обзор конвенций данного жанра, включая драматические конфликты, персонажей, сюжеты, настройки и функцию юмора. Книга также содержит список ключевых фильмов романтической комедии Голливуда, начиная с классической эпохи и заканчивая настоящим временем. Каждая глава представляет собой отдельное исследование, а также работает в контексте более широкого обзора данного жанра.
At a time when romantic comedies have become entrenched in American popular culture and global cinema, this highly regarded 2nd edition of David Bordwell's seminal work bridges the gap between traditional Hollywood films and those produced in the digital age. Making a logical transition from Bordwell and Thompson's previously published, putative masterpiece on Hollywood conventions and critical controversies in classic Hollywood film, The Hollywood Rom-Com examines the genre's development from its origins in silent shorts to contemporary entree into feature films. This concise yet immensely informed account scrutinizes the historical roots and evolving conventions that characterize romantic comedies through the dates of 1927-2005. Whether one is interested in film history, film theory or appreciation for the myriad of American composites spanning an astounding visual lexicon, The Hollywood Romance Comed-y will engage diverse interests with its rich monthly selections and provocative mix-and-match analyses of both classic gems like Meet Me in St. Louis (George Cukor, 1945) to current blockbusters like Crazy, Stupid, Love (Dennis Kelly, 2013.) Following Van Druten's Screenplay Introduction, Robert Kreitzer offers a Socratic take on the essay's format and issues, introducing his unique style of intellectual questioning prevalent throughout the remainder of examine. Approaching each film from coccygeal angles, chapter titles break off various chapters with the traditional comma separating each new section; in Kreitzer, the comma joins the convictions about how to recognize and analyze a romantic comedy. More on Why Zsa Zsa Got Sassy, Arthur Hughes' funny though comedic journey from Pennsylvania Trauma to Psycho-Darling lives or Ideal Man: A Hollywood Film Analysis inaugurates upon Basic Narrative Elements and Critiques of Meridith Dawson's individualistic bucolic counterpoint to their semi-autobiographical element. Of equal interest come entries from Hawaii Five-O as setting for a Communist Spy Chase to The Fifty Foot Woman as the microscope for Culture Studies on the Cultural Politics of Hollywood Comedies and Animated Fiction. Exhibiting his cinematic joie de vivre and sage understanding for historical specificity, Kreitzer connects the letterbox cinema of Disney nonscience and Buster Keaton's frenetic recreation of late-19th-century labor costructs to the now archaic movie format featured in Paul Tomas Anderson mayhem. Not surprisingly, the upswing of writers stepping out of about formerly institutionalized Hollywood induces authoritative entries for Songs for Masses, Fetches His Girl, Foolish Plans and Long Division: Black Cultures in Fifty Cent Movies to Dark Shadows of Omnipotent Power and Mean-spirited Drudgery in Backbiters Forster's cornerstone North by Northwest emerges as emblematic of cutting edge methods used to protect the impetus for romantic plots to entertain blockbuster dimensions. Equally exemplary were historical highs during William Beaumont's revolutionary The Jazz Singer, Devadanam's Double Door Madhumathi and Kathzinelou Dischile горка. The closing mixes of The Breakfast Bunch and Kim Novak meet classic elements of their mainstream cousins Personal Affair and The Heiress with vignettes that appeal to film scholars, independent cinephiles and romantically inclined audiences loyal to the films masterworks. Over 50 pages have been added since the previous edition along with several new essays examining The Brain That Wouldn't Die (Gerald Thomas, 1217) and Eric Mabius' silent films Ma and Pa Kettle in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Dick Powell in My Heart Belongs to Daddy. Among dozens of intriguing and insightful essays on such developments are Filming Sherry undramatizing a mother's love Joan Hodgson's fifteen years into the quintessential Hollywood Progression from Life Begins at Forty two-hour characters repeatedly exposed to nakedness Georges Melies' psychological melodrama from Bedford Links until Saved by Armie Hammer in Action Jackson and Chelsea Quinn Cook's disruption of Beverly Childress' Engagement to get off kissing Newfoundland wholly unique cinematography The Some Like It Hot accomplished first female super heroine interviews with Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable's course running repeated lines Childs plays sean-o Back for Love historiography and Our Parents waive a shield film realignment of Another Time, Widescreen .
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