Sex Comedy---There's more to it...

Sex. The word itself raises some curiousity and conclusions. I'll try to make this blog understandable. There was a lot of information that I read and to think...the book considers "sex comedy" a sub-genre. By definition, McDonald writes, "Both sexes play this game of when sex will actually happen....instead this genre focuses more of a woman who prefers to wait till marriage and a man who wants sex without the committment"( 38). The sixties must have been some year. That's around the same time PlayBoy  Magazine was introduced. It's still every man's dream to experience anything coming close to Hugh Heifner, The Bunnies, or The Mansion. I guess that would also be the perfect christmas present for any man. I find it weird that the book talked about how sex was hidden and kept so sacred. Now, sex is the topic that gets a lot of exposure. My mom and dad were born in the sixties. If sex education wasn't talked about back then, how were they informed of contraceptives? It's still taboo in some cultures. We do live in culture that influences us to have sex or save it. But, I alos read that movie industries feared allowing sex to air---it might lead to more people having sex. Albert Kinsey wrote reports to show proof that, "women could have premarital sex just as much as guys"( 41). This still holds true to this day---men can sleep with different women and get cuddles for it, but women who sleep with different men is considered a whore. I also liked how the chapter focused on the importance of saving your virginity---that was part of the American dream. The white picket fence, three children, big yard, small city, married, perfect jobs, etc. One sex comedy I find hilarious till this day..."Booty Call". That entire movie is about that one thing. They went through hell and at the end of the night, they finally hit the jackpot. It all started with a double date, dancing, hormones, and the lack of protection. I was a little confused towards the last pages of the chapter...Hopefully a class discussion can help...

                                              
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RomCom----They can be listed in any genre

So, I reread chapter 1 of Tamar Jeffers McDonald, "Romantic Comedy" Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre". I found many points profound. Steve Neale and Rick Altman stress the importance of how the romcom movies intertwine with other genres. This results in "hybridity" (8).  I also remembering watching the movie, "Jerry Maguire" and thinking Tom Cruise played one arrogant sports agent. It was an old movie, but the few scenes we did see in class the other day reminded me of how young the actors looked. The chapter also mentions how much marketing goes on into making a movie appear as if "you gotta see this". And it works. One example of that is the recent movie, "Easy A". There's advertisements for this movie everywhere. I wish they didn't show so much of the movie clips...I pretty much know how it's going to end. They define what a romcom is....."the movie focuses entirely on love and ends with that same focus" (9). The book also talks about how romcom sells products, which is true for most movies, and the myth that all these movies are "chick flicks". But, if we think about it, are all suspensful movies, for example, all guy movies? I guess we identify chick flicks with any movie that has two heterosexual beings falling for each other. Personally, I like comedies and romantic movies. Serious movies bore me.