When Harry Met Sally ...

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By Tamar Jeffers McDonald

Series: BFI Film Classics

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When Harry Met Sally (1989) is a ground-breaking romantic comedy that set enduring themes and tropes for the genre. This book places the film within its historical, social, and generic contexts, analysing how writer Nora Ephron and director Rob Reiner innovatively used narrative structure, filmic devices, music, and classic romcom elements.
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This insightful analysis will appeal to fans of romantic comedies, film scholars, and anyone interested in the evolution of popular culture and cinema.

Ground-breaking in its departure from its predecessors, When Harry Met Sally (1989) established classic romantic comedy themes and tropes still being employed today.

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Ground-breaking in its departure from its predecessors, When Harry Met Sally (1989) established classic romantic comedy themes and tropes still being employed today. Placing the film in its historical, social and generic contexts, Tamar Jeffers-McDonald explores how writer Nora Ephron and director Rob Reiner used structure, filmic devices, music and classic romcom concepts in innovative new ways.

In her fresh and timely appraisal of this definitive, much-loved classic, Jeffers-McDonald reflects on the film's enduring legacy and influence on popular culture, giving readers a wider perspective on the continuing evolution and importance of the romcom genre.

Series: BFI Film Classics

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781844579075

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 November 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: BFI Publishing

Illustration: 60 colour photos

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 134.0mm

Height: 188.0mm

Weight: 180g

Pages: 96

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Series: BFI Film Classics Tamar Jeffers McDonald

About the Author

Tamar Jeffers McDonald is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Kent, UK. She is the author of Hollywood Catwalk: Reading Costume and Transformation in American Film (2010) and Doris Day Confidential: Hollywood Sex and Stardom (2013).