Romance

What are the conventions of this genre?

•Love at first sight•In most films the boy is always

chasing the girl•The ‘unpopular’ boy/girl falling for

the ‘popular’ girl/boy •Something stops them from being

together•Sometimes ends with the couple not

being able to be together

‘a Cinderella story’

• This film is a typical contemporary romantic film, where the average unlucky girl falls for the popular boy who at first seems to be way out of her league, eventually the popular boy falls for the girl too.

The Notebook

• A poor and passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman and gives her a sense of freedom. They soon are separated by their social differences.

A fictional romantic tale of a rich girl and poor boy who meet on the ill-fated voyage of the 'unsinkable' ship.

Titanic

Institutions• Warner brothers produced ‘Casablanca’• Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation • produced ‘Titanic’ • New Line Cinema produced ‘The

Notebook’• Jarow Shepherd produced ‘Breakfast at

tiffany's’ • Great American Films Limited

Partnership • produced ‘Dirty Dancing’