Betty Kaklamanidou: 3 books
The "Disguised" Political Film in Contemporary Hollywood
A Genre's Construction
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
With strict guidelines on methodology and time frame -- films produced after September 2001, and a socio-semiotic theoretical framework -- Betty Kaklamanidou unpacks the problematic terms and ideas that go along with defining a new genre. Kaklamanidou considers a different sub-genre per chapter, placing...
Easy A
The End of the High-School Teen Comedy?
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Easy A (2010) is the last significant box-office success in the high-school teen movie subgenre and a film that has already been deemed a ‘classic’ by many cultural commentators and popular film critics. By applying interdisciplinary insight to a relatively overlooked movie in academic discussion,...
Genre, Gender and the Effects of Neoliberalism
The New Millennium Hollywood Rom Com
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The romantic comedy has long been regarded as an inferior film genre by critics and scholars alike, accused of maintaining a strict narrative formula which is considered superficial and highly predictable. However, the genre has resisted the negative scholarly and critical comments and for the last...