The Comic, the Serious and the Middle: Desire and Space in Contemporary Film Romantic Comedy

The most interesting things in romantic comedies happen in the middle. It is there that the characteristic tensions between melodramatic intensity and comedic cool, between laughter and frustration, between the social and the psychosexual take place. In this article I want to move away from traditio...

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Main Author: Celestino Deleyto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR) 2011-10-01
Series:Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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Online Access:https://www.jprstudies.org/2011/10/the-comic-the-serious-and-the-middle-desire-and-space-in-contemporary-film-romantic-comedy-by-celestino-deleyto/