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How To: Watch a Rom-Com
Season 5 · Episode 2

How To: Watch a Rom-Com

Hot and Bothered · Not Sorry Productions

February 27, 202442m 18s

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Show Notes

For our first deep-dive into How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, we wanted to look at the history of the rom-com genre. To help us dig into it, we called up the incredible Kathleen Karlyn, the founding director of the Cinema Studies program at University of Oregon and author of The Unruly Woman: Gender and the Genres of Laughter.


We wanted to know: Where does the history of the rom-com start? What do people mean when they say something is a ‘battle of the sexes’ movie? and how do gender norms and ideals inform this particular movie? 



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