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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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The 'happy ending': the making of a reputation
- 1. The 'happy ending' and homogeneity
- 2. Happy endings and closure
- 3. Happy endings and unrealism
- 4. Happy endings and ideology
- Conclusion Provisions for the future
- Bibliography
- Index