Download or read book Passionate Love and Popular Cinema written by Erica Todd and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the romantic drama and the way that passionate love is presented as the central storyline in popular cinema, drawing upon genre studies and sociology. Exploring the passionate love story as a cinematic form, it also contributes, through comparison, to research on the romantic comedy.