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http://dx.doi.org/10.5392/JKCA.2013.13.03.054

The Romantic Comedy Genre Conventions and the Audience's Reaction in American Romantic Comedy Movie -focused on the Difference of Acceptance of Korean and American Audience by Nationality and Gender-  

Song, Minho (단국대학교 스토리텔링연구센터)
Youm, Chonghee (단국대학교 스토리텔링연구센터)
Woo, Jeonggueon (단국대학교 스토리텔링연구센터)
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Abstract
This study is on Hollywood's latest romantic comedy movie , attempted to identify whether nationality or gender difference of the movie audience is affecting on their acceptance to the genre characteristics of Hollywood's romantic comedy. Most of Hollywood's romantic comedy movies are centered on attraction of female and male actors and its' formulated plot (boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-gets-girl structure). Although the movie is following the formulated romantic comedy plot, it shows a variation from the typical romantic comedy genre. In this thesis, based on audience research data, statistics and interrelationship analysis on audience value orientation, we elucidate how Korean and American, Female and Male movie audience have different preference to actors and characters in the movie and representation of archetypal Hollywood romantic comedy happy ending such as propose and wedding scenes.
Keywords
Romantic Comedy; Genre Convention; Audience Reaction; Gender; Cultural Acceptance;
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