Genre, Gender and the Effects of Neoliberalism

This new work draws together a discussion of the full range of romantic comedies in the new millennium, exploring the cycles of films that tackle areas including teen romance, the new career woman, women as action heroes, the homme com, motherhood and pregnancy and the mature millennium woman. The work evaluates the structure of these different types of films and examines in detail the ways in which they choose to frame key contemporary issues which influence how we analyse global politics, including gender, class, race and society.

Betty Kaklamanidou is lecturer in Film History and Theory at the Film Studies Department at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

1. Introduction 2. The Battle of the Sexes Rom Com: To Be Continued? 3. The "New" Career Woman Rom Com 4. The Fantasy Rom Com 5. The Action Rom Com 6. The Teen Rom Com 7. The "Mature" Rom Com: Heroines and Heroes "of a Certain Age" 8. The Baby-Crazed Rom Com 9. The Man-Com Cluster 10. The Indie Rom Com 11. Romantic Comedy and the "Other:" Race, Ethnicity, and the Transcendental Star