MEETING THE PARENTS: Romance's Comedic Ruptures in the Familial Rom-Com.
The familial romantic comedy extends the trajectory of the traditional rom-com into the wider family, further affirming the rom-com's reliance on heteronormative ideology, positing blood ties and a unified, cordial family unit as the ideal outcome for any coupling. But the comedic moments in familia...
| Published in: | Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film & Television no. 92; pp. 16 - 27 |
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University of Texas Press
Fall2023
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