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Happy Endings in Hollywood Cinema: Cliché, Convention and the Final Couple
James Macdowell
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Description for Happy Endings in Hollywood Cinema: Cliché, Convention and the Final Couple
Paperback. Offers a critical study of the 'happy ending' in classical and contemporary Hollywood cinema. This book encourages students and scholars of film to reconsider some tenacious critical preconceptions, inviting them to approach afresh their understandings of perhaps the most infamous narrative convention in Hollywood cinema. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 350.
This is a critical study of the 'happy ending' in classical and contemporary Hollywood cinema. The Hollywood 'happy ending' has long been considered among the most famous and standardised features in the whole of narrative filmmaking. Yet, while ceaselessly invoked, this notorious device has received barely any detailed attention from the field of film studies. This book is thus the first in-depth examination of one of the most overused and under-analysed concepts in discussions of popular cinema. Concentrating especially on conclusions featuring an ultimate romantic union - the final couple - this wide-ranging investigation probes traditional associations between the 'happy ... Read more
This is a critical study of the 'happy ending' in classical and contemporary Hollywood cinema. The Hollywood 'happy ending' has long been considered among the most famous and standardised features in the whole of narrative filmmaking. Yet, while ceaselessly invoked, this notorious device has received barely any detailed attention from the field of film studies. This book is thus the first in-depth examination of one of the most overused and under-analysed concepts in discussions of popular cinema. Concentrating especially on conclusions featuring an ultimate romantic union - the final couple - this wide-ranging investigation probes traditional associations between the 'happy ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748699773
SKU
V9780748699773
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About James Macdowell
James MacDowell is an Associate Fellow in the Department of Film & Television Studies at the University of Warwick, and an editorial board member of Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism.
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