FILM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Neurosis, Oldies
6 Dec 2017
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Lecture 12: romantic comedy (iii): the new romance: > basic narrative structure > boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl in end. > differences between men & women eventually overcome. > comedy: usually in love-hate conflict/ via secondary characters. > focus on courtship & romance of heterosexual couple (ideology of stable man dependent & domesticated female) > effects of feminism reflected by resulting in threat to ideal presented in classic. > male figure is more emotionally unstable > destabilizing traditional notions of masculinity. > relationship unsuccessful because both characters cannot find common ground without risking damaging loss of self. > identified four main features: asserting values of old-fashioned heterosexual romance. > reclaiming conventions of classical romantic comedy: nervousness relabeled eccentricity : > hallmarks of either/ both members of couple. > neurosis/ nervousness/ eccentricity cured, marginalized, & sometimes adopted by right partner: return to linear narrative: > counters threat of female independence: use of romantic music:
