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	Romantic Comedies @ Filmbug
		Romantic comedies are movies with light-hearted, humorous dramatic stories centered around romantic ideals such as a "true love" able to surmount most obstacles or the "perfect couple." Romantic comedy films are a sub-genre of comedy films as well as of romance films.
		One of the conventions of romantic comedy films is the contrived encounter of two potential romantic partners in unusual or comic circumstances, which film critics such as Roger Ebert or the Associated Press' Christy Lemire have called a "meet-cute" situation.
		The subject matter of romantic comedies are the obstacles that the potential pair must face before they can acknowledge, fulfill, or consummate their love, and the audience must care about the relationship enough to finish the movie.
	www.filmbug.com /dictionary/romantic-comedies.php (1065 words)

	Romantic comedy film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alternatively, the film may be a rumination on the impossibility of love, as in Woody Allen's film Annie Hall.
		The heyday of "meet cute" in films was during the Great Depression in the 1930s;screwball comedy films made a heavy use of contrivanced romantic "meet cutes," perhaps because the more rigid class consciousness and class divisions of this period made cross-social class romances into tantalizing fantasies.
		While film critic Roger Ebert has popularized the term "meet cute" in his reviews of romantic comedies, the term is mostly used in the film and screenwriting industries, where it provides a convenient shorthand for screenwriters who are doing a very compressed pitch to a film production company.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Romantic_comedy_film (1080 words)

	Comedy in Film (Site not responding. Last check: )
		romantic comedies: This subgenre of the comedy concentrates on the emotional attraction of a couple in a consistently lighthearted manner, typically drawing attention to a peculiar or awkward social predicament.
		screwball comedies: A subgenre of the comedy film that emphasizes a fast-talking verbal gymnastics, displacing the sexual energy of the drama into barbed verbal exchanges between men and women and usually redirecting the comic focus from the individual clown to the heterosexual couple.
		slapstick comedies: A subgenre of the comedy film that emphasizes humorous stunts, physical actions, and gags.
	www.cod.edu /people/faculty/bobtam/website/comedy_in_film.htm (89 words)

	Romantic Comedy - Article - Artnam.com
		Romantic comedies have been a hit among many studios, mainly because of their ability to be produced at relatively low costs, a trait that studio moguls love, especially when their comedy has a good weekend at the box office.
		Many women can tell the difference between a comedy and a romantic comedy, but some can’t, and it is that section of the population that the industry focuses on, especially with some of the higher-budget movies, which cannot be successful without some form of genre transcendence.
		The traditional romantic comedy still thrives on its system of artistic expression, along with the ability to connect with many females, and some males, but the genre of the romantic comedy is changing.
	artnam.com /Article/Romantic_Comedy/34 (717 words)

	Filmmaking Techniques: Comedy film
		Comedy film is genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor.
		Films of this nature stem from a theatrical history of anarchic comedy on the stage.
		Comedy horror films are types of horror films in which the usual dark themes are portrayed using a humorous approach.
	filmtechniques.blogspot.com /2007/09/comedy-film.html (1037 words)

	Comedy Film
		A comedy of manners film satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters.
		It was not uncommon for the early romantic comedy film to...
		There is no consensus definition of this film style, and it is often loosely applied to slapstick or romantic comedy films.
	lycos.cs.cmu.edu /info/comedy-film.html (438 words)

	Romantic comedy film (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Romantic comedy films are a a sub-genre of comedy films as well as of romance films.
		The basic plot of a romantic comedy is that two people meet banter each other but despite an attraction obvious the audience do not become romantically involved of some internal factor (on the surface do not like each other) or an barrier (one is romantically involved with another for instance).
		Not only is this a comprehensive survey of the genre of romantic comedy (and its profound sub-genre, screwball comedy), but Harvey's digressions offer many wise comments on pre-1950 films in general.
	www.freeglossary.com /Romantic_comedy_film (492 words)

	Film genres
		Films are often divided into genres, which describe the typical subject matter -- what the film is about.
		This is distinct from film styles, which describes filmic conventions which can be applied to any genre.
		Of course, the more that genres are defined, the more likely that a filmmaker will try to combine, transcend and evade categories, so not every film can be neatly labeled.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fi/Film_genre.html (82 words)

	Comedy film (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A comedy film is a film/movie that seeks to laughter in the audience.
		Along with drama horror film and science fiction film it is one of the largest genres of the medium.
		Film comedy can be further divided into other sub-genres.
	www.freeglossary.com /Comedy_film (461 words)

	Arts \| Life \| Exploring \| Chemeketa (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Film history is illuminated, with film selections ranging from the silent cinema to contemporary movies.
		Themes and Genres is devoted to the study of a major film genre (romantic comedy, film noir, the western) or a group of films of a single nationality or expressing a common theme (the French New Wave, Australian Cinema).
		Emphasis is on the way in which films express ideas, and the films are selected and lectures designed to lead you to a greater ability to perceive, appreciate and enjoy cinema.
	www.chemeketa.edu /exploring/life/arts/film/filmstudies.html (442 words)

	UHM OUTREACH COLLEGE \| NONCREDIT : Writing the Romantic Comedy for Film and Television -- 4/3/2004 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This two-day seminar is aimed at the student who wants to write a romantic comedy screenplay or draw upon romantic comedy material for a TV series format.
		Film clips are used to present a brief history of the genre, highlighting recurrent themes and trends.
		The afternoon is devoted to exploring romantic comedy characterization (both protagonists and supporting roles) and the important role of theme in crafting successful romantic comedies.
	www.outreach.hawaii.edu /programs/2004/EVENT-L06789.asp (567 words)

	Genders OnLine Journal - Presenting innovative theories in art, literature, history, music, TV and film.
		My focus is the embodiment of the spunky heroine of the romantic comedy film--the feisty screwball leading lady whose excessive speech, aspirations, and energy have endeared her to generations of cinema lovers and to feminist film theory as well, which has celebrated her as woman-on-top and fast-talking dame.
		[2] The traditional romantic comedy ends in the coupling of the unlikely couple, but the pleasure of the narrative—and its feminist appeal—is the lively, quarrelsome give-and-take of the courtship, fired by the struggle for egalitarianism between the unruly woman and the man who is her match.
		Addressing this tension, comedy scholar Geoff King claims that the contradiction is palatable because even though the heroine is "tamed" into bourgeois life at the end of the narrative, the assumption is that she never loses her rebellious elan (132).
	www.genders.org /g46/g46_mizejewski.html (8907 words)

	Comedy Films
		Comedies usually come in two general formats: comedian-led (with well-timed gags, jokes, or sketches) and situation-comedies that are told within a narrative.
		Comedies have also been classified in various subgenres, such as romantic comedy, crime/caper comedy, sports comedy, teen or coming-of-age comedy, social-class comedy, military comedy, fish-out-of-water comedy, and gross-out comedy.
		Screwball comedies, a sub-genre of romantic comedy films, was predominant from the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s.
	www.filmsite.org /comedyfilms.html (1654 words)

	Living the Romantic Comedy: Film
		Romantic comedy lovers, romantics, lovers comedic or serious -- pretty much all humans with beating hearts know that as soon as February rolls around, there's a major holiday to be reckoned with, one that's come to symbolize the meaning of love and romance for America, if not the world.
		This year was a peculiarly shaped one for romantic comedy: crowded at the bottom and dominated by a few solid winners at the top, without a whole lot of interest in the middle.
		Juno is also a legit romantic comedy (it's a hybrid: coming-of-age/teen rom-com) and one of its most impressive attributes, on this level, is how much Cody has managed to deliver with not much at all; the central romantic relationship is a triumph of less-is-more.
	livingromcom.typepad.com /my_weblog/film/index.html (8873 words)

	USCCB - (Film and Broadcasting) - Romantic Comedy
		Romantic Comedy -- Mediocre screen version of Bernard Slade's play about a successful Broadway playwriting team (Dudley Moore and Mary Steenburgen), whose professionalism takes a decade or so to ripen into romance.
		As directed by Arthur Hiller, the movie is not very romantic or comic, but the charm of the principals makes it a shade less unbearable.
		Though adultery figures in the plot, it is not condoned and the whole enterprise is rather innocuous.
	www.usccb.org /movies/r/romanticcomedy1983.shtml (182 words)

	Romantic comedy film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		or the "perfect couple." Romantic comedy films (sometimes shortened to "ro-co"s or "rom-com"s) are a sub-genre of comedy films as well as of romance films, and they are sometimes colloquially described as "chick flicks," because they are designed to appeal to women viewers.
		The basic plot of a romantic comedy is that two people, usually a man and a woman, meet and then part ways due to an argument or other contrived obstacles.
		Then, after one of the two makes some spectacular effort to find the other person and declare their love, (this is sometimes called the grand gesture), or due to an astonishing coincidental encounter, the two meet again.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Romantic_comedy (1080 words)

	Top 12 Romantic Comedies
		Among all onscreen romantic comedy pairs, Tom Hanks (as a widowed guy) and Meg Ryan (as an engaged girl) probably has the best chemistry.
		The film makes fun of girls' romantic fantasies, and the coincidences are all made-up so the plot is quite believable.
		One of Meg Ryan's earler films, which sets her image as queen of romantic comedies, When Harry Met Sally is smart and cute at the same time.
	members.tripod.com /~heinzb/comedy.html (956 words)

	Fall classics: directors offer cheeky takes on classic genres: romantic comedy and film noir - Film - Review Insight on ...
		Voila Amelie, the romantic comedy by French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet that manages to be both blithe and beatific.
		Amelie is in many ways a classic romantic comedy, but the wit with which the writers have woven together the subplots, all illustrating the timeless truths of hope, faith and charity, is rare in cinema.
		Indeed, his inarticulate existentialism is central to the film's running gag about the plight of modern man as defined in mid-century America, with its A-bomb scares, flying-saucer sightings and growing materialism.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_43_17/ai_80309416 (952 words)

	Romantic Comedy Film Cells (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Film cell details: In the midst of a nasty public breakup of married movie stars, a studio publicist scrambles to put a cap...
		Film cell details: Novalee Nation is a pregnant 17-year-old from Tennessee heading to California with her boyfriend Willie J...
		Film cell details: Joel (Jim Carrey) is stunned to discover that his girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) has had her memori...
	www.bigscreencells.com /BSCCAT15/Romantic-Comedy.htm (399 words)

	Trinity International Entertainment,NJ plans to release its brand new film, a hilarious romantic comedy of a family ...
		The film has already won a nomination for NY International Independent Film and Video film festival, which is going to be held in July 2007.
		This is a romantic comedy film with romance between an American boy (Dave) and Indian girl (Swapna), who are from entirely different cultural backgrounds.
		The film "On the other side" is a well-balanced blend of comedy and drama and provides a wholesome family entertainment that everyone will love to watch.
	www.prweb.com /releases/comedy/adventure/prweb529215.htm (1211 words)

	Romantic comedy film
		It is not even essential for the two lead characters to end up in each other's arms: My Best Friend's Wedding[?] is a good example.
		The basic format of a romantic comedy predates the cinema by centuries.
		For instance, many of William Shakespeare's plays, such as Much Ado About Nothing, fall squarely within the bounds of the romantic comedy.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ro/Romantic_comedy.html (122 words)

	Comedy Gifts, Toys, Collectibles and Memorabilia at Movie Gifts Galore
		The plot of the comedy is often concerned with an illicit love affair or some other scandal, but is generally less important than its witty and sometimes bawdy dialogue.
		Films of this nature stem from a theatrical history of anarchic comedy on the stage and in street performances.
		During the 1930s the silent film comedy was replaced by dialogue from film comedians such as the W. Fields and the Marx Brothers.
	moviegiftsgalore.com /comedy.htm (1402 words)

	The Last Class
		It was filmed with a hand-wound 16mm camera, which limited the longest shot to 30 seconds.
		The entire film was storyboarded -- and nearly every shot was a single take -- practically unheard of in the world of filmmaking.
		When I asked the director of the 1997 Houston International Film Festival if I could enter it into the competition -- special permission was required because the film was not produced in 1996 -- the director laughed at me! But then he granted me permission to enter it.
	www.georgethomasjr.com /thelastclass (437 words)

	Indefual.ca » Blog Archive » Hitch and the Hollywood romantic comedy
		I mean, unique and original in the “it’s still a Hollywood romantic comedy film” way.
		The last scene was over the top (not to mention in the slapstick comedy section), seemed pointless, resolved the situation, and gave us our kiss and happy ending.
		It wasn’t without any redeeming value, but even if it had to be done, they didn’t have to follow the Hollywood romantic comedy rules so well.
	www.indefual.ca /?p=39 (451 words)

	AFI: 10 Top 10
		AFI defines "animated" as a genre in which the film's images are primarily created by computer or hand and the characters are voiced by actors.
		AFI defines "romantic comedy" as a genre in which the development of a romance leads to comic situations.
		AFI defines "western" as a genre of films set in the American West that embodies the spirit, the struggle and the demise of the new frontier.
	www.afi.com (218 words)

	Graham fails to conceive romantic comedy - Lifestyle
		Film's exploitation of men and their sperm fills this comedy with little laughs.
		Eric Styles, the film's director, said that in the end, Georgina learns "that if she had become pregnant by anyone other than Zak, it would have been very problematic," an insightful conclusion about her failed searches for sperm.
		This British comedy fails to translate well to American screens; the outrageous plot might draw crowds across the pond, but here in the States, it is just too ridiculous and implausible to entertain summer moviegoers.
	media.www.dailytrojan.com /media/storage/paper679/news/2008/06/04/Lifestyle/Graham.Fails.To.Conceive.Romantic.Comedy-3378178.shtml (1370 words)

	Love Films & Romantic Movies - Best Comedy Movie with Love True Romance
		Though chivalry may lie dormant or in fact be dead (claimed by many single women!), romance continues to live on.
		The best romance movies capture the hearts of a female audience due to the fact it centers on their basic desire and need for love.
		There are romantic comedy movies that do not portray the fairy-tale ending that individuals usually expect.
	www.explorelove.co.uk /romantic_films.htm (280 words)

	You, Me and Dupree \| Film School Rejects
		The genre of â€œromantic comedyâ€ describes a very specific type of film, one in which comedy is the main focus, backed by a smattering of romantic plot that provides scenarios wrought with comedic potential.
		In a surprising twist, it is Michael Douglas who delivers what is perhaps the film’s funniest performance as Molly’s father, who slowly pushes Carl (Dillon) over the edge of sanity incrementally during the course of the movie.
		The film closes with a scene of romantic reconciliation between Molly and Carl that, somehow, tugs on the heartstrings and may even bring tears to the eyesâ€¦ not exactly the goal of even the most romantic of comedies.
	www.filmschoolrejects.com /reviews/review-you-me-and-dupree.php (545 words)

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