Michele Schreiber is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Emory University. She is the author of American Postfeminist Cinema: Women, Romance and Contemporary Culture (Edinburgh University Press, 2014) and articles on postfeminist media and contemporary independent and Hollywood filmmakers. Her work has appeared in Journal of Film and Video and anthologies including American Independent Cinema: Indie, Indiewood and Beyond, Feminism at the Movies and Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History.

Schreiber’s text provides a valuable insight into the continued influence of postfeminist anxieties surrounding heterosexual romance on contemporary American cinema. Her framework of the conventions of the ‘postfeminist romance cycle’ offers a useful method for analysis that could be expanded upon in further research projects. The text will be of interest to scholars in the fields of gender and sexuality, film and romance, in addition to cultural historians and researchers of American Studies in general.

• Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Women, Postfeminism and Romance; 1. Both Glad and Sorry: Romance Cycles and Women’s Politics; 2. Pragmatism vs. Sentimentality: Amelioration in the Postfeminist Cycle; 3. Past vs. Present: Temporality in the Postfeminist Cycle; 4. Sexy vs. Funny: Sexuality in the Postfeminist Cycle; 5. Independence vs. Dependence: Economics in the Postfeminist Cycle; Conclusion: Beginnings vs. Endings: The Future of the Postfeminist Cycle; Selected Bibliography

Michele Schreiber is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Emory University. She is the author of American Postfeminist Cinema: Women, Romance and Contemporary Culture (Edinburgh University Press, 2014) and articles on postfeminist media and contemporary independent and Hollywood filmmakers. Her work has appeared in Journal of Film and Video and anthologies including American Independent Cinema: Indie, Indiewood and Beyond, Feminism at the Movies and Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History.

Schreiber’s text provides a valuable insight into the continued influence of postfeminist anxieties surrounding heterosexual romance on contemporary American cinema. Her framework of the conventions of the ‘postfeminist romance cycle’ offers a useful method for analysis that could be expanded upon in further research projects. The text will be of interest to scholars in the fields of gender and sexuality, film and romance, in addition to cultural historians and researchers of American Studies in general.

• Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Women, Postfeminism and Romance; 1. Both Glad and Sorry: Romance Cycles and Women’s Politics; 2. Pragmatism vs. Sentimentality: Amelioration in the Postfeminist Cycle; 3. Past vs. Present: Temporality in the Postfeminist Cycle; 4. Sexy vs. Funny: Sexuality in the Postfeminist Cycle; 5. Independence vs. Dependence: Economics in the Postfeminist Cycle; Conclusion: Beginnings vs. Endings: The Future of the Postfeminist Cycle; Selected Bibliography

Michele Schreiber is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Emory University. She is the author of American Postfeminist Cinema: Women, Romance and Contemporary Culture (Edinburgh University Press, 2014) and articles on postfeminist media and contemporary independent and Hollywood filmmakers. Her work has appeared in Journal of Film and Video and anthologies including American Independent Cinema: Indie, Indiewood and Beyond, Feminism at the Movies and Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History.

Schreiber’s text provides a valuable insight into the continued influence of postfeminist anxieties surrounding heterosexual romance on contemporary American cinema. Her framework of the conventions of the ‘postfeminist romance cycle’ offers a useful method for analysis that could be expanded upon in further research projects. The text will be of interest to scholars in the fields of gender and sexuality, film and romance, in addition to cultural historians and researchers of American Studies in general.

• Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Women, Postfeminism and Romance; 1. Both Glad and Sorry: Romance Cycles and Women’s Politics; 2. Pragmatism vs. Sentimentality: Amelioration in the Postfeminist Cycle; 3. Past vs. Present: Temporality in the Postfeminist Cycle; 4. Sexy vs. Funny: Sexuality in the Postfeminist Cycle; 5. Independence vs. Dependence: Economics in the Postfeminist Cycle; Conclusion: Beginnings vs. Endings: The Future of the Postfeminist Cycle; Selected Bibliography