Love Wars

This is the first dedicated overview of the international television romantic comedy genre, Mary Irwin builds on the critical work on cinematic romantic comedy to offer a dedicated critical analysis of the romantic comedy on the small screen. Drawing on series from the 1960s to the present day, Irwin presents five themed chapters around the theme of romantic love, from searching for it and finding it to the love wars of the book's title to finding love later in life and in places you didn't expect. Chapters explore the genre's key recurrent themes: evolving attitudes to love, relationships,...
