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In spite of its stability in quantitative terms, the American romantic comedy of the new century shows certain decay as film genre, because of its incapacity to articulate a genuine romantic discourse, and of its recurrence to worn-out dramatic strategies. The increasing weight of coarseness in these romantic comedies is presented as the first new path in the necessary renewal of this genre.

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Romantic comedy, Film genres, Hollywood, Comic arquetypes, Intertextuality, Love in cinema

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