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Unlikely couples: movie romance as social criticism

Thomas E Wartenberg 1999 © Taylor & Francis
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  • 9780813334394 (paper)
  • 9780429503320 (ebook)
  • 9780813334387 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Film & Media Studies
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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page xi)
  • Filmography (page xiii)
  • Preface (page xv)
  • Acknowledgments (page xix)
  • 1 The Subversive Potential of the Unlikely Couple Film (page 1)
  • Part 1 Class
    • 2 Pygmalion The Flower Girl and the Bachelor (page 21)
    • 3 It Happened One Night: An Education in Humility (page 47)
    • 4 Pretty Woman: A Fairy Tale of Oedipalized Capitalism (page 67)
    • 5 White Palace: Dustbuster Epiphanies (page 89)
  • Part 2 Race
    • 6 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Does Father Really Know Best? (page 111)
    • 7 Jungle Fever Souring on Forbidden Fruit (page 131)
    • 8 Mississippi Masala: Love in a Postcolonial World (page 153)
    • 9 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul: The Privileges of "Race" (page 173)
  • Part 3 Sexual Orientation
    • 10 Desert Hearts: Betting on Lesbian Love (page 193)
    • 11 The Crying Game: Loving in Ignorance (page 209)
    • 12 Movie Romance and the Critique of Hierarchy (page 231)
  • Bibliography (page 243)
  • Index (page 249)
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JAAC 59.1 (Winter 2001): 110-111 http://www.jstor.org/stable/432278
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