The pleasures of rom coms. What reps of femininity are available in romcoms and what pleasures/needs to they fulfil in their audiences. Key academic text to add - Reading the Romance, by Ann Radway.
Radway argues that romance (in her study it's Mills and Boon books) allows women to fantasise about a change in the nature of masculinity. Women's experience of men in reality is they are hard and uncaring - just like the romanitic hero at the start. SO the transformation of the hero into a kind, loving, understanding man is a fantasy that dominant masculinity in our society will change.
Look at two films and explore the reps of men and women and then do primary research on what real women fans of romcoms regard as the pleasures of these texts, and what sort of characters and narratives they like, and why.
See http://criticalresearchellis.blogspot.com
Sean
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