'Guilty Pleasures': European Audiences and Contemporary Hollywood Romantic Comedy
Alice Guilluy, "'Guilty Pleasures': European Audiences and Contemporary Hollywood Romantic Comedy "
English | ISBN: 1350163031 | 2021 | 304 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1350163031 | 2021 | 304 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In Guilty Pleasures, Alice Guilluy examines the reception of contemporary Hollywood romantic comedy by European audiences. She offers a new look at the romantic comedy genre through a qualitative study of its consumption by actual audiences. In doing so, she attempts to challenge traditional critiques of the genre as trite “escapism” at best, and dangerous “guilty pleasure” at worst. Despite this cultural anxiety, little work has been done on the genre's real audiences. Guilluy addresses this gap by presenting the results of a major qualitative study of the genre's reception, based on interview research with rom-com viewers in Britain, France and Germany, focusing on
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