Happy Endings in Hollywood Cinema : : Cliché, Convention and the Final Couple / / James MacDowell.
A critical study of the 'happy ending' in classical and contemporary Hollywood cinemaThe Hollywood 'happy ending' has long been considered among the most famous and standardised features in the whole of narrative filmmaking. Yet, while ceaselessly invoked, this notorious device h...
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