From Hollywood With Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy
by Scott Meslow
From the publisher's website:
No Hollywood genre has been more misunderstood—or more unfairly
under-appreciated—than the romantic comedy. Funny, charming, and
reliably crowd-pleasing, rom-coms were the essential backbone of the
Hollywood landscape, launching the careers of many of Hollywood’s most
talented actors and filmmakers, such as Julia Roberts and Matthew
McConaughey, and providing many of the yet limited creative
opportunities women had in Hollywood. But despite—or perhaps because
of—all that, the rom-com has routinely been overlooked by the Academy
Awards or snobbishly dismissed by critics. In From Hollywood with Love, culture writer and GQ contributor
Scott Meslow seeks to right this wrong, celebrating and analyzing
rom-coms with the appreciative, insightful critical lens they’ve always
deserved.
Beginning with the golden era of the romantic comedy—spanning from the late ’80s to the mid-’00s with the breakthrough of films such as When Harry Met Sally—to the rise of streaming and the long-overdue push for diversity setting the course for films such as the groundbreaking, franchise-spawning Crazy Rich Asians, Meslow examines the evolution of the genre through its many iterations, from its establishment of new tropes, the Austen and Shakespeare rewrites, the many love triangles, and even the occasional brave decision to do away with the happily ever after.
Featuring original black-and-white sketches of iconic movie scenes and exclusive interviews with the actors and filmmakers behind our most beloved rom-coms, From Hollywood with Love constructs oral histories of our most celebrated romantic comedies, for an informed and entertaining look at Hollywood’s beloved yet most under-appreciated genre.
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