'Guilty Pleasures'
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'Guilty Pleasures'

European Audiences and Contemporary Hollywood Romantic Comedy

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'Guilty Pleasures'

European Audiences and Contemporary Hollywood Romantic Comedy

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In Guilty Pleasures, Alice Guilluy examines the reception of contemporary Hollywood romantic comedy by European audiences. She offers a new look at the romantic comedy genre through a qualitative study of its consumption by actual audiences. In doing so, she attempts to challenge traditional critiques of the genre as trite "escapism" at best, and dangerous "guilty pleasure" at worst. Despite this cultural anxiety, little work has been done on the genre's real audiences. Guilluy addresses this gap by presenting the results of a major qualitative study of the genre's reception, based on interview research with rom-com viewers in Britain, France and Germany, focusing on Sweet Home Alabama (2002, dir. Andy Tennant). Throughout the interviews, participants attempted to distance themselves from what they described as the "typical" rom-com viewer: the uneducated, gullible, overly emotional (American) woman. Guilluy calls this fantasy figure the "phantom spectatrix". Guilluy complements this with a critical examination of the press reviews of the 20 biggest-grossing rom-coms at the worldwide box-office in order to contextualise the findings of her audience research.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2021
ISBN
9781350163058
Edition
1
Topic
Médias et arts de la scène
Subtopic
Film et vidéo

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents 
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Tables
  8. Series Editors’ Foreword
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Transcription Conventions
  11. Introduction: ‘Lights, action … and pure treacle’
  12. 1 ‘Health warning: High-sugar content’: The rom-com and the critics
  13. 2 ‘The pudding works splendidly’: Genre, emotions and pleasure
  14. 3 ‘Candy-pink cage?’: Gender, feminism and the phantom viewer
  15. 4 ‘Chomping on a burger with a glass of coke’: The Americanness of romantic comedy
  16. Conclusion: ‘Cinder-fuckin’-rella’
  17. Appendix 1: Semi-Structured Interview Questions
  18. Appendix 2: Participant Tables
  19. Appendix 3: Sweet Home Alabama Synopsis
  20. References
  21. Index
  22. Imprint