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Romantic comedy and the virtues of predictability
New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-02 , DOI: 10.1080/17400309.2019.1664059
Kyle Stevens 1
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ABSTRACT While cinematic narratives are often evaluated and enjoyed in terms of their ability to captivate through suspense and revelation, in this essay, I mount a defense of narrative predictability. I take the genre of romantic comedy, arguably the most critically derided for its formulaic nature, as a case study, arguing that not only are there virtues to predictability but that the negative values that have been attached to it are often masculinist and politically suspect. More specifically, through a close reading of Nelson Lyon’s 1971 film The Telephone Book, I consider what romantic comedy shares with pornography, another genre that trades on the knowledge – evident from the start – that characters will, in the end, come together.

中文翻译:

浪漫喜剧和可预测性的优点

摘要虽然电影叙事通常通过悬念和启示的魅力来评估和享受,但在本文中,我为叙事的可预测性辩护。我将浪漫喜剧的类型作为案例研究,它可能是因其程式化性质而受到最严厉嘲笑的类型,并认为它不仅具有可预测性的优点,而且与之相关的负面价值经常是男性主义的和政治上可疑的。更具体地说,通过仔细阅读纳尔逊·里昂(Nelson Lyon)1971年的电影《电话簿》,我考虑了浪漫喜剧与色情的共通点。色情是另一种流传知识的流派,从一开始就显而易见-角色最终将走到一起。
更新日期:2020-01-02
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