In Elizabeth Sankey’s Romantic Comedy, our most-loved romcoms are torn apart and scrutinised for their unrealistic pictures of male-female relationships and white, heterosexual, middle-class characters. Why does the woman always have to be saved by a man?
From Meg Ryan to Julia Roberts, romcom queens are generational emblems. Elisabeth Sankey’s ace dissection of the enduring yet often dismissed genre is at once heartfelt and incisive, sharply questioning its tropes, lack of representation and problematic gender politics from a place of… deep love.
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