The Romance Genre encompasses films in which the story focuses on love, passion, emotion and affection between the main characters, following them through courtship and/or marriage. Lovers often face obstacles such as money troubles, physical and mental illness, discrimination, psychological restrains, death, tensions of day-to-day life, temptation, infidelity, family restraints and differences in themselves. Many types of love can be explored, the main ones being: love at first sight, unrequited love, obsessive love, sacrificial love, spiritual love, forbidden love, destructive love and tragic love. Romantic films can be used as escapism for viewers, especially with cathartic or ‘happily ever after’ endings. The primary or target audience is usually women from early teens. [1]
Example films include:
The Notebook, 2004
Love Actually, 2003
Love and Other Drugs, 2010
One Day, 2011
Titanic, 1997
Shakespeare in Love, 1998
The Holiday, 2006
Blue Valentine, 2010
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_films
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