This is a book by Ann Radway which suggests that romance is about wish-fulfilment and the fantasy transformation of masculinity. Women's normal, day-to-day experience of me is that they are harsh, hard, uncaring, unemotional, ungiving. Romance books endlessly replay stories of such me changing into kind, thoughtful, generous, emotional creatures (think Mark Darcy in Briget Jones). You could explore whether this is what romcoms do as well, or do women get other pleasures from them, or ar the narratives quite different in any case. I have the book so get some photocopies from it.
Sean
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