Women and film
Changing Representations of Women.
I think it will be hard to say much that is generally applicable if you focus on these two films alone (Breakfast at T and The Sweetest Thing). Why have you chosen them? What about looking at romcom as a genre a bit more broadly, but with these two as main texts? You could take in a few more like Brigit Jones etc.
First reading you need to do is several chapters from Media Gender and Identity, by David Gauntlett. These are Ch 3 and 4.
What about primary research? You could show some clips to a group of female romcom fans and try to work out what contemporary women want their female heroines to be like?
