The Hollywood Romantic Comedy

Leger Grindon is Professor of Film and Media Culture at Middlebury College, USA. He has written widely on film and is the author of Shadows on the Past: Studies in the Historical Fiction Film (1994) and Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema (2011).

List of Plates. Acknowledgements. 1 Introduction. 2 History, Cycles, and Society. 3 Thinking Seriously About Laughter and Romance. 4 Trouble in Paradise (1932): What is the Trouble in Paradise? 5 His Girl Friday (1940): Jailbreak! 6 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944): The Home Front Romantic Comedy. 7 Adam's Rib (1949): Anatomy Lesson. 8 Some Like It Hot (1959): Riding Sidesaddle. 9 The Graduate (1967): Counter-Conventions and Cultural Change. 10 Annie Hall (1977): The Trials of Partnership. 11 When Harry Met Sally (1989): Friendship, Sex, and Courtship. 12 There's Something About Mary (1998): Parody and the Grotesque. 13 Waitress (2007): Women's Ambivalence. A Chronology of Prominent Hollywood Romantic Comedies. References. Index.