附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-215) and index.
Introduction : Surviving love / Peter William Evans and Celestino Deleyto -- Love lies : romantic fabrication in contemporary romantic comedy / Frank Krutnik -- 'I think I could fall in love with him' : Victor/Victoria and the 'drag' of romantic comedy / Steven Cohan -- Murphy's romance : romantic love and the everyday / Deborah Thomas -- Something wild : take a walk on the wild side (but be home before midnight) / Constanza del Río -- Time trips and other tropes : Peggy Sue got married and the metaphysics of romantic comedy / Bruce Babington -- Working girl : a case study of achievement by women? New opportunities, old realities / Chantal Cornut-Gentille -- Love and other triangles : Alice and the conventions of romantic comedy / Celestino Deleyto -- The fever and the itch : matching plots in Spike Lee's Jungle fever / Isabel C. Santaolalla -- Allison Anders's Gas food lodging : independent cinema and the new romance / Kathleen Rowe Karlyn -- Meg Ryan, megastar / Peter William Evans.
