Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy: Gender as Genre

by John Alberti

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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"

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