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➤ SOURCES
Different, Except in a Different Way: Marriage, Divorce, and Gender in the Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage by Heather Glimour https://www.jstor.org/stable/20688177
The Sexual Revolution of the "Roaring Twenties": Practice or Perception? by Shellie Clarke http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/2671
A Proper Dash of Spice: Screwball Comedy and the Production Code by Jane M. Greene https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jfilmvideo.63.3.0045
Screwball Comedies: Constructing Romance, Mystifying Marriage by David R. Shumway https://www.jstor.org/stable/1224884
Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy, and the Marriage Crisis by David R. Shumway (2003)
https://collider.com/screwball-comedy-movies/
Romantic vs. Screwball Comedies by Wes D. Gehring (2002)
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-FILM/akveqmlarvr/
https://www.technicianonline.com/culture/what-happened-to-the-rom-coms-of-the-90s/article_56d972a0-c561-11ee-b46d-fbe761c79dc8.html
https://www.vulture.com/2017/02/why-emma-stone-and-jennifer-lawrence-dont-make-rom-coms.html
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2016/
https://independent-magazine.org/2022/10/22/the-demise-of-mid-budget-cinema/
https://wsspaper.com/94152/ae/the-death-of-mid-budget-films/
https://wvnexus.org/opinions/large-franchises-displace-middle-budget-films-fail-to-tell-distinctive-stories/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/magazine/matt-damon.html
https://www.vulture.com/2017/02/why-emma-stone-and-jennifer-lawrence-dont-make-rom-coms.html
https://www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/article/61943/1/is-the-romcom-dead-anyone-but-you-sydney-sweeney
https://www.vox.com/culture/23428388/ticket-paradise-julia-roberts-george-clooney-shotgun-wedding-jennifer-lopez-lost-city-sandra-bullock
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kate-hudson-difficult-getting-male-movie-stars-rom-coms-1235779797/
https://www.jezebel.com/i-rewatched-love-actually-and-am-here-to-ruin-it-for-al-1485136388
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-rom-com-is-dead-good/2016/10/06/6d82a934-859c-11e6-ac72-a29979381495_story.html
https://uproxx.com/hitfix/the-rom-com-is-dead-11-offensive-cliches-well-be-glad-to-see-expire/
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-91682-001
https://thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/how-rom-com-plots-have-changed-over
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/what-tiktok-reveals-about-gen-z-dating-hyperindividualism-heteropessimism
https://parade.com/1333321/jessicasager/why-dont-they-make-romcoms-anymore/
https://www.polygon.com/24153946/mid-budget-movies-hollywood-blockbusters-cinemacon
0:00 - intro
4:33 - the hollywood screwball
12:13 - the peak of romcoms
22:41 - the romcom today
35:37 - conclusion