BOOKS WITH AN ACADEMIC FOCUS
Abbott, S & Jermyn, D (eds) (2008) Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema, London: IB Tauris
Bell, S & Gehring, WD (2002) Romantic vs Screwball Comedy: Charting the Differences, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press
Benjamin, J (1988) The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and the Problems of Domination, New York: Random House
Deleyto, C (2011) The Secret Life of Romantic Comedy, Manchester: Manchester University Press
Evans, PW & Deleyto, C (1998) Terms of Endearment: Hollywood Romantic Comedies of the 80s and 90s, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Freud, S (2005) The Unconscious, London: Penguin Modern Classics
Grant, BK (ed) (2012) Film Genre Reader (4th edn), Austin, TX: University of Texas Press
Grindon, L (2011) The Hollywood Romantic Comedy, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell
Grodal, T (1997) Moving Pictures, A New Theory of Film Genres, Feelings and Cognition, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Harvey, J (1998) Romantic Comedy in Hollywood: From Lubitsch to Sturges, Boston: Da Capo Press
Horton, A & Rapf JE (eds) (2012) A Companion to Film Comedy, Chichester: Wiley
McDonald, TJ (2007) Romantic Comedy: Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre, London: Wallflower Press
Mortimer, C (2010) Romantic Comedy, Abingdon: Routledge
BOOKS WITH A PRACTICAL, INDUSTRY FOCUS
Batty, C & Cain, S (2010) Media Writing: A Practical Introduction, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Batty, C (2012) Screenplays: How to Write and Sell Them, Harpenden: Kamera Books
Duncan, SV (2008) Genre Screenwriting: How to Write Popular Screenplays That Sell, New York: Continuum
Giglio, K (2012) Writing the Comedy Blockbuster: The Inappropriate Goal, Studio City, CA: Michael Wiese Productions
Gulino, PJ (2004) Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach, New York: Continuum
Harper, G (ed) (2012) Inside Creative Writing: Interviews with Contemporary Writers, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Indick, W (2004) Psychology for Screenwriters: Building Conflict in Your Script, Studio City, CA: Michael Wiese Productions
Jacey, H (2010) The Woman in the Story: Creating Memorable Female Characters, Studio City, CA: Michael Wiese Productions
Mernit, B (2001) Writing the Romantic Comedy, New York: Harper Collins
Misch, D (2013) The Funny Book, Milwaukee: Applause Theatre and Cinema Books
Owen, A (ed) (2004) Story and Character: Interviews with British Screenwriters, London: Bloomsbury
Scott, KC (ed) (2005) Screenwriters’ Masterclass: Screenwriters Discuss Their Greatest Films, London: Faber & Faber
Selbo, J (2014) Film Genre for the Screenwriter, Abingdon: Routledge
Vogler, C (2007) The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers (3rd edn), Studio City, CA: Michael Wiese Productions
Waldeback, Z & Batty, C (2012) The Creative Screenwriter: Exercises to Expand Your Craft, London: Bloomsbury
Yoneda, KF (2011) The Script-Selling Game: A Hollywood Insider’s Look at Getting Your Script Sold and Produced (2nd edn), Studio City, CA: Michael Wiese Productions