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Genre and Gender, Couples and Culture | The how and why of romantic comedy research Why should we study romantic comedy, and how should we do it? Saturday 22nd November, 10am-6pm. Cinema Museum off Dugard Way, Renfrew Road London SE11 4TH Co-organised by King's College London, University of Warwick and the Cinema Museum. Romantic comedy is one of Hollywood's longest-running genres, with roots going back to the early 1930s, and contemporary releases seen by millions worldwide. Yet despite its popularity, in recent years in particular it has been widely criticised or even ridiculed as formulaic and excessively sentimental, in both academic and popular media discourse. The event will combine round-table discussions of the genre's 'bad reputation' with screenings of Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 masterpiece The Shop Around the Corner and Nora Ephron's 1998 remake, You've Got Mail. Rom-com scholars including Professor Peter W. Evans (Queen Mary, University of London), Dr. Deborah Jermyn (Roehampton University), Dr. Mary Harrod (University of Warwick) and Dr. Martha Shearer (King's College London) will discuss the reasons for and try to get beyond such prejudices, instead considering the 'battle-of-the-sexes' genre's wider relevance to such socio-cultural issues as evolving gender roles and coupling norms over the last century. Tickets are £5/£3 concessions and can be booked here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/genre-and-gender-couples-and-culture-the-how-and-why-of-romantic-comedy-research-tickets-12510742969 Twitter: @romcoms2014 Dr Martha Shearer Department of Film Studies King's College London Strand, London WC2R 2LS kcl.academia.edu/MarthaShearer<http://kcl.academia.edu/MarthaShearer> -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid “engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list.” For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------