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Unlikely Couples: Movie Romance as Social Criticism
By Thomas E. Wartenberg
280 pages
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- Westview Press
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- Boulder, CO
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Synopsis
In Unlikely Couples: Transgressive Love, Social Criticism, & the Movies, Thomas E. Wartenberg directly challenges the view that narrative cinema inherently supports the dominant social interests by examining the way popular films about "unlikely couples" (a mismatched romantic union viewed as inappropriate, often due to differences in race, gender, or class) explore, expose, & often criticize societal attitudes, boundaries, & prejudices. The films under consideration: Romeo & Juliet, Guess Who's ...
In Unlikely Couples: Transgressive Love, Social Criticism, & the Movies, Thomas E. Wartenberg directly challenges the view that narrative cinema inherently supports the dominant social interests by examining the way popular films about "unlikely couples" (a mismatched romantic union viewed as inappropriate, often due to differences in race, gender, or class) explore, expose, & often criticize societal attitudes, boundaries, & prejudices. The films under consideration: Romeo & Juliet, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Pygmalion, It Happened One Night, Pretty Woman, White Palace, Desert Hearts, Mississippi Masala, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Jungle Fever, & The Crying Game, are examined both individually & as a whole to illustrate the way in which the genre either endorses or criticizes a view of its central couple.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Illustrations xi
- Filmography xiii
- Preface xv
- Acknowledgments xix
- 1 - The Subversive Potential of the Unlikely Couple Film 1
- Notes 16
- Part One - Class 19
- 2 Pygmalion - The Flower Girl and the Bachelor 21
- Notes 43
- 3 It Happened One Night - An Education in Humility 47
- Notes 66
- 4 - Pretty Woman a Fairy Tale of Oedipalized Capitalism 67
- Notes 86
- 5 - White Palace Dustbuster Epiphanies 89
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Illustrations xi
- Filmography xiii
- Preface xv
- Acknowledgments xix
- 1 - The Subversive Potential of the Unlikely Couple Film 1
- Notes 16
- Part One - Class 19
- 2 Pygmalion - The Flower Girl and the Bachelor 21
- Notes 43
- 3 It Happened One Night - An Education in Humility 47
- Notes 66
- 4 - Pretty Woman a Fairy Tale of Oedipalized Capitalism 67
- Notes 86
- 5 - White Palace Dustbuster Epiphanies 89
- Notes 105
- Part Two - Race 109
- 6 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - Does Father Really Know Best? 111
- Notes 128
- 7 Jungle Fever - Souring on Forbidden Fruit 131
- Notes 151
- 8 Mississippi Masala - Love in a Postcolonial World 153
- Notes 170
- 9 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul - The Privileges of "Race" 173
- Notes 188
- Part Three - Sexual Orientation 191
- 10 Desert Hearts - Betting on Lesbian Love 193
- Notes 205
- 11 the Crying Game - Loving in Ignorance 209
- Notes 226
- 12 - Movie Romance and the Critique of Hierarchy 231
- Notes 241
- Bibliography 243
- Index 249