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Happy Endings in Hollywood Cinema

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Happy Endings in Hollywood Cinema: Cliché, Convention and the Final Couple

James MacDowell

The Hollywood ‘happy ending’ has long been considered among the most famous and standardised features in the whole of narrative filmmaking. Yet, while ceaselessly invoked, this notorious device has received barely any detailed attention from the field of film studies. This book is the first in-depth examination of one of the most overused and under-analysed concepts in discussions of popular cinema. What exactly is the ‘happy ending’? Is it simply a cliché, as commonly supposed? Why has it earned such an unenviable reputation? ... Read more

 

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