From Hollywood with Love by Scott Meslow

Releases Feb 1st - Get it on Amazon

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From Hollywood with Love by Scott Meslow takes a brief look into many of the Rom-Com movies we all know and love. Included are some of the most memorable and iconic films about romance. Grabbing bits from interviews with the authors, producers, and actors you get a glimpse into each of these movies. Not a lot of time is spent on one particular film, but we get a large smattering of all the good stuff. It’s a cute and informative read. It reads very academically and I was reminded of a dissertation or senior capstone, especially with the conclusion and cited materials at the end. Not a bad thing though, there’s nothing like an informed reader! All in all, a great read. A perfect Valentine's Day gift for the Rom-Com lover in your life.

~Tanja

*Thank you to Dey Street Books/William Morrow for sharing this title with me

From the Cover...
An in-depth celebration of the romantic comedy's modern golden era and its role in our culture, tracking the genre from its heyday in the '80s and the '90s, its unfortunate decline in the 2000s, and its explosive reemergence in the age of streaming, featuring exclusive interviews with the directors, writers, and stars of the iconic films that defined the genre.

No Hollywood genre has been more misunderstood--or more unfairly under-appreciated--than the romantic comedy. Funny, charming, and reliably crowd-pleasing, rom-coms were the essential backbone of the Hollywood landscape, launching the careers of many of Hollywood's most talented actors and filmmakers, such as Julia Roberts and Matthew McConaughey, and providing many of the yet limited creative opportunities women had in Hollywood. But despite--or perhaps because of--all that, the rom-com has routinely been overlooked by the Academy Awards or snobbishly dismissed by critics. In From Hollywood with Love, culture writer and GQ contributor Scott Meslow seeks to right this wrong, celebrating and analyzing rom-coms with the appreciative, insightful critical lens they've always deserved.

Beginning with the golden era of the romantic comedy--spanning from the late '80s to the mid-'00s with the breakthrough of films such as When Harry Met Sally--to the rise of streaming and the long-overdue push for diversity setting the course for films such as the groundbreaking, franchise-spawning Crazy Rich Asians, Meslow examines the evolution of the genre through its many iterations, from its establishment of new tropes, the Austen and Shakespeare rewrites, the many love triangles, and even the occasional brave decision to do away with the happily ever after.

Featuring original black-and-white sketches of iconic movie scenes and exclusive interviews with the actors and filmmakers behind our most beloved rom-coms, From Hollywood with Love constructs oral histories of our most celebrated romantic comedies, for an informed and entertaining look at Hollywood's beloved yet most under-appreciated genre.