Journal article
What Have Clothes Got to Do with It? Romantic Comedy and the Female Gaze
Southwest review, Vol.95(1/2)
01 Jan 2010
Abstract
Some romantic comedies are better than others, but all films in the genre do basically the same thing, and basically, it's the genre Cohen likes. Romantic comedies engage with material things in a particular way: they glory in them and glorify them; they make them an expression and an extension of the self. Among other things Cohen argues that women watch romantic comedies not just for the anomalous pleasures they afford but for more substantive reasons: to learn how to use the material world creatively and to assimilate things into a style of being that defines and empowers them.
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Details
- Title
- What Have Clothes Got to Do with It? Romantic Comedy and the Female Gaze
- Creators
- Paula Cohen
- Publication Details
- Southwest review, Vol.95(1/2)
- Publisher
- Southwest Review
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Pennoni Honors College
- Identifiers
- 991020836498304721