¿Y comieron perdices? Amores adúlteros vs. comedia romántica

Authors

  • Isabel Castells Molina Universidad de La Laguna

Keywords:

Romantic Comedy, Happy End, Adultery, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Cabaret, Flesh and the Devil, Gone with the wind, Gilda, Casablanca, Letter from an unkown woman, The bridges of Madison County, Lost in translation

Abstract

This paper tries to confront some adoulterous love stories to those which take place in «romantic comedies». This confrontation allows us to show how «happy endings» are more a commercial product than an artistic manifestation, by placing the adoulterous stories in a legendary tradition from the Middle Age to present time. This paper also analyzes the variations in the determining factors (moral, aesthetic) behind the development of this old plot in different films.

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Published

2005-04-15

Issue

No. 3 (2005)

Section

Miscellaneous

License

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How to Cite

Castells Molina, Isabel. 2005. “¿Y Comieron Perdices? Amores Adúlteros Vs. Comedia Romántica”. Latente - Revista de Historia Y Estética del Cine, Fotografí­a Y Cultura Visual, no. 3 (April): 161-78. https://www.ull.es/revistas/index.php/latente/article/view/5966.