Michele Schreiber is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Emory University.
In her well-researched and cogently argues book, Michele Schreiber
explores the disconnect between the reality of women's personal,
economic, and social gains and cinematic representations of women
in the twenty-first century.'--Sarita Cannon "Journal of Popular
Film and Television"
Michele Schreiber's nuanced, hugely rewarding book is a brilliant
analysis of the ways in which the mythology of heterosexual romance
continues to regulate as well as to complicate the conventions of
postfeminist cinema. Dissolving boundaries between comedy and
drama, film and other media, she offers original and lively
readings of an array of films that demand mixed responses,
concentrating on key topics such as nostalgia, 'girlhood', the
tensions between female dependency and autonomy, all in a clear and
accessible style.-- "Peter William Evans, Queen Mary, University of
London"
Schreiber's text provides a valuable insight into the continued
influence of postfeminist anxieties surrounding heterosexual
romance on contemporary American cinema. Her framework of the
conventions of the 'postfeminist romance cycle' offers a useful
method for analysis that could be expanded upon in further research
projects. The text will be of interest to scholars in the fields of
gender and sexuality, film and romance, in addition to cultural
historians and researchers of American Studies in
general.--Krystina Osborne, Liverpool John Moores University
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