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The essays in this book document a level of generic activity that belies the death notices so often read out for romantic comedy. Moreover, they do so with analytical skill and rhetorical force. With a fresh focus on rom-coms that make use of alternative distribution practices, disrupt conventional plotlines, or are non-traditional in representational content-featuring queer, ethnically diverse, and/or 'un-couples'-After 'Happily Ever After' cogently illustrates that there is still much to be learned from and about this oft-sidelined genre. A scholarly comedy in two prologues and three acts, this wonderful book starts by resisting the predictions of the doomsayers about the death of comedy and ends up being a song to the vitality, diversity, and apparently endless ability of romantic comedy to shift shape, to adapt, to survive-like life itself if viewed through a comic lens.

A scholarly comedy in two prologues and three acts, this wonderful book starts by resisting the predictions of the doomsayers about the death of comedy and ends up being a song to the vitality, diversity, and apparently endless ability of romantic comedy to shift shape, to adapt, to survive-like life itself if viewed through a comic lens.--Celestino Deleyto author of The Secret Life of Romantic Comedy (12/08/2020) The essays in this book document a level of generic activity that belies the death notices so often read out for romantic comedy. Moreover, they do so with analytical skill and rhetorical force.-- (12/08/2020) With a fresh focus on rom-coms that make use of alternative distribution practices, disrupt conventional plotlines, or are non-traditional in representational content-featuring queer, ethnically diverse, and/or 'un-couples'-After 'Happily Ever After' cogently illustrates that there is still much to be learned from and about this oft-sidelined genre.--Suzanne Leonard Simmons University (12/08/2020)

A scholarly comedy in two prologues and three acts, this wonderful book starts by resisting the predictions of the doomsayers about the death of comedy and ends up being a song to the vitality, diversity, and apparently endless ability of romantic comedy to shift shape, to adapt, to survive-like life itself if viewed through a comic lens.--Celestino Deleyto author of The Secret Life of Romantic Comedy (12/08/2020) The essays in this book document a level of generic activity that belies the death notices so often read out for romantic comedy. Moreover, they do so with analytical skill and rhetorical force.-- (12/08/2020) With a fresh focus on rom-coms that make use of alternative distribution practices, disrupt unconventional plotlines, or are non-traditional in representational content-featuring queer, ethnically diverse, and/or 'un-couples'-After 'Happily Ever After' cogently illustrates that there is still much to be learned from and about this oft-sidelined genre.--Suzanne Leonard Simmons University (12/08/2020)

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Maria San Filippo is associate professor of media studies at Emerson College and editor of New Review of Film and Television Studies. She has authored the Lambda Literary Award-winning The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television and Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media.

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