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A 5 page paper which analyzes the tenets and conventions of the romantic comedy film genre, including settings, character types, style, narrative patterns, conflicts, resolutions and common themes. Specifically examined are
four romantic comedies which are particularly representative of the genre. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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they fall in love; boy loses girl; but ultimately, boy and girl reunite shortly before the closing credits. Romantic comedies originally appeared as alternatives to the popular tearjerkers of
the 1930s. This was the height of The Great Depression, and Hollywood figured that Americans had enough to cry about in their daily lives. In the movie theaters,
they needed to laugh to forget their troubles for awhile. Studios of the day produced light-hearted fare which "depicted the blossoming of romance for attractive couples under the most
unorthodox and, at times, implausible circumstances" (Dolan 177). The conventional romantic comedy features a man and a woman who, for various reasons, resist their growing attraction to each other (Mills
desc.html). It usually has a fixed social setting -- in the 1930s and 40s, it was the aristocracy; in the 1950s and 60s, there was a more metropolitan, "love
in the workplace" setting; and this has continued to the present day, with the emphasis on yuppies who are looking for love, but dont necessarily want to go to singles
bars to find it. The narrative usually features one or both of the romantic leads (or someone close to them). The character types were, in the 1930s so-called
"screwball" romantic comedies, a man and woman of differing social standing and temperaments. In Frank Capras classic 1934 film, It Happened One Night, the man was an out-of-work newspaper
reporter, Peter Warne, who meets up with an heiress, Ellie Andrews, who is running away from her privileged way of life, including marriage to a man of her own social
class whom she doesnt love (Essoe 150). The two become friends on their cross-country journey, even though he thinks of her as a "spoiled brat" and she regards him
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