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Happy Endings and Films

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Why are we so suspicious of happy endings? Is it simply because we want to assert we are no longer children and deserve an adult approach? Or is it for fear of moral convention and lazy commonplace entertainment? The happy ending in films is often disregarded by critics who see it merely as an element much too marked by convention and external influences to be worthy of interest. On the contrary, this volume, which includes a series of twelve original essays preceded by a methodological introduction, places the question of the positive outcome under scrutiny and reveals that it is a mistake to consider it as monolithic. The essays in this collection by noted film critics and promising young researchers provide insight into "rom-coms" as well as auteur and heritage films and reflect the diversity of the relationship between films and happy endings. Contributions ranging from classical Hollywood cinema to contemporary film thus point to the complexity of a too hastily dismissed convention.
Les douze essais sont précédés d'une introduction méthodologique. Ils traitent de la question de la fin heureuse dans les films et révèlent que c'est une erreur de considérer la fin heureuse comme monolithique. Quant aux genres étudiés, cela va des classiques d'Hollywood au cinéma d'auteur, en passant par les comédies romantiques, les films d'héritiers et les nouvelles tendances.

Sujets (films) :
- Match point (Match point) - Woody Allen - 2004
- When Harry met Sally (Quand Harry rencontre Sally) - Rob Reiner - 1989
- Body and soul - Oscar Micheaux - 1924
- The Holiday (The Holiday) - Nancy Meyers - 2006
- Chocolat (Le Chocolat) - Lasse Hallström - 2000
- Pride and prejudice (Orgueil et préjugés) - Joe Wright - 2004
- Stranger than fiction (L'Incroyable destin de Harold Crick) - Marc Forster - 2005
- Two lovers (Two lovers) - James Gray - 2007
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hal-03737010 , version 1 (23-07-2022)

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Armelle Parey, Isabelle Roblin, Dominique Sipière (Dir.). Happy Endings and Films. Michel Houdiard éditeur, 168 p., 2010, 978-2-35692-034-8. ⟨hal-03737010⟩
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