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.
