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Rom Com: a study in genre
Aug. 29th, 2010 12:13 amI was at a Super Awkward dinner party/BBQ tonight...I'm in an English PhD program and we tend towards the awkward. So in one of the many stilted conversations I had tonight, I scrounged through my brain for something to make small talk about (the rodeo I saw in Wisconsin was trotted out at least six times before even I was tired of it) and I happened upon this one.
My dad, who has a PhD in English but has been doing Other Things with his life (my point is that he could hold his own with any of the stilted conversationeers at this dinner party not that PhDs=clever), has been compiling a list of the top ten Romantic Comedies of the past decade. He's doing this because my whole family is crazy fannish about the old screwball comedies of the thirties and forties, the heigh-day of Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, and Jimmy Stewart. My dad wants to believe that the genre survived intact into the modern era.
( If you want to read my passionate and lengthy opinions on romantic comedies and the tragic end to the awkward evening, lay on, Macduff! )
I might try to make my own Top Ten Romantic Comedies. Or I might theorize some more about the genre (I'm sure you, reader, are thrilled)...I don't know. I'm definitely not done thinking about it.
My dad, who has a PhD in English but has been doing Other Things with his life (my point is that he could hold his own with any of the stilted conversationeers at this dinner party not that PhDs=clever), has been compiling a list of the top ten Romantic Comedies of the past decade. He's doing this because my whole family is crazy fannish about the old screwball comedies of the thirties and forties, the heigh-day of Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, and Jimmy Stewart. My dad wants to believe that the genre survived intact into the modern era.
( If you want to read my passionate and lengthy opinions on romantic comedies and the tragic end to the awkward evening, lay on, Macduff! )
I might try to make my own Top Ten Romantic Comedies. Or I might theorize some more about the genre (I'm sure you, reader, are thrilled)...I don't know. I'm definitely not done thinking about it.
