why aren't romcoms

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Different, Except in a Different Way: Marriage, Divorce, and Gender in the Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage by Heather Glimour https://www.jstor.org/stable/20688177
The Sexual Revolution of the "Roaring Twenties": Practice or Perception? by Shellie Clarke http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/2671
A Proper Dash of Spice: Screwball Comedy and the Production Code by Jane M. Greene https://www.jstor.org/stable/1....0.5406/jfilmvideo.63
Screwball Comedies: Constructing Romance, Mystifying Marriage by David R. Shumway https://www.jstor.org/stable/1224884
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https://collider.com/screwball-comedy-movies/
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0:00 - intro
4:33 - the hollywood screwball
12:13 - the peak of romcoms
22:41 - the romcom today
35:37 - conclusion