Unlikely Couples: Movie Romance As Social Criticism

Unlikely Couples: Movie Romance As Social Criticism
ISBN-10
042998295X
ISBN-13
9780429982958
Category
Social Science
Pages
280
Language
English
Published
2019-05-20
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Thomas E. Wartenberg

Description

In Unlikely Couples, Thomas E. Wartenberg directly challenges the view that narrative cinema inherently supports the dominant social interests by examining the way popular films about "unlikely couples" (a mismatched romantic union viewed as inappropriate due to its class, racial, or gender composition) explore, expose, and criticize societal attit

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