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000128183 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0002-0663-0519$$aOria, Beatriz$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza
000128183 245__ $$a“I'm taken … by myself”: romantic crisis in the self-centered indie rom-com
000128183 260__ $$c2021
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000128183 5203_ $$aThis essay identifies a new tendency in contemporary US romantic comedy that is especially prevalent in the independent sector: the “self-centered rom-com”. It argues that this trend can be read as a symptom of a crisis of romantic love in the early twenty-first century, deploying sociological theory on contemporary romantic suffering as theoretical framework to explore these films’ underscoring of self-realization and simultaneous de-emphasis on romance to achieve it. The close reading of Lola Versus (2012), a representative example of this trend, reveals that by presenting the individual quest for self-identity as the answer to romantic disappointments, the self-centered indie rom-com poses itself as a fitting genre for the self-absorbed millennial culture in which it is inscribed while naturalizing a neoliberal rationality that constructs the subject in entrepreneurial terms and renders gender inequality as an individual affair rather than a structural problem.
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000128183 593__ $$aVisual Arts and Performing Arts$$c2021$$dQ2
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000128183 7102_ $$13004$$2345$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema.$$cÁrea Filología Inglesa
000128183 773__ $$g73, 1 (2021), 3-17$$tJournal of film and video$$x0742-4671
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