film/movies

Bellanta, Melissa

(2014) A Masculine Romance: The Sentimental Bloke and Australian Culture in the War-and Early Interwar Years Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

Topic

Australia

Sabino, Rosimeri Ferraz

Bezerra, Antônio Ponciano

(2020) Romance-folhetim em tela: linguagem, personagens e sentidos sociais DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada 36.4: DOI: 10.1590/1678-460X2020360406

Topic

(2020) "Till Death Do Us Part: Romancing the Stone, Death Becomes Her, and the Romance Genre " A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis 17-29

Topic

film/movies

Davisson, Amber

Hunting, Kyra

(2023) From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires Journal of Popular Television 11.1:7-25 DOI: 10.1386/jptv_00090_1

Topic

Julia Quinn

film/movies

sex/sexuality

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

pornography

race/ethnicity

Delamoir, Jeanette

(2003) Marie Bjelke Petersen's 'virile story': Jewelled Nights, gender instability, and the bush Hecate 29.1:115-131

Topic

cross-dressing

Marie Bjelke Petersen

Australia

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

religion/spirituality

gender

social/economic class

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Ducoulombier, Martine

(2005) La comédie romantique – un genre mal-aimé? Africultures 63.2:43-45 DOI: 10.3917/afcul.063.0043

Topic

film/movies

Africa

Dutton, Lucie Bea

(2021) "A reluctant movie? The Reluctant Widow on screen " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 215-239 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.17

Topic

Georgette Heyer

film/movies

Edmondson, Belinda

(2007) The Black Romance Women's Studies Quarterly 35.1/2:191-211

Topic

African American romance

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

sex/sexuality

race/ethnicity

Frances Watkins Harper

Caribbean

film/movies

social/economic class

national identity

Fragero Guerra, Carmen

(2014) "Soñar la vida": La narrativa de Carmen de Icaza (1936-1960) PhD, Universidad de Córdoba

Topic

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

social/economic class

fashion/clothing

film/movies

Ganapathy, Subha

(2002) Who Is Afraid of Romance Novels?: Women Readers, Patriarchy and Popular Culture PhD thesis, Mother Teresa Women’s University

Topic

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

(1996) The Merchants of Venus: Inside Harlequin and the Empire of Romance Vancouver: Raincoast

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

(2015) 14 Weeks of Love and Labour: Teaching Regency and Desert Romance to Undergraduate Students Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

Topic

(2023) From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires Journal of Popular Television 11.1:7-25 DOI: 10.1386/jptv_00090_1

Topic

Julia Quinn

film/movies

sex/sexuality

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

pornography

race/ethnicity

Kies, Bridget

(2024) Saying “I Don’t”: Queer Romance in the Post–Marriage Equality World Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13:

Topic

marriage

happy ending

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

film/movies

Alexis Hall

Labanyi, Jo

(2004) Romancing the Early Franco Regime: the Novelas Románticas of Concha Linares-Becerra and Luisa-María Linares UC Berkeley: Institute of European Studies: Occasional Papers Working Paper OP-13:

Topic

Concha Linares-Becerra

Luisa-María Linares

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

(1997) Indian Films and Nigerian Lovers: Media and the Creation of Parallel Modernities Africa 67.3:406-440 DOI: 10.2307/1161182

Topic

(2021) "In Grey and Pink: The Image of the Bride through the Spanish Postwar Novela Rosa " The Bride in the Cultural Imagination: Screen, Stage, and Literary Productions 17-34 DOI:10.5771/9781793616142-17

Topic

Spain

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

marriage

Carlota O'Neill/Laura de Noves

(1981) Women’s Gothic and Romantic Fiction: A Reference Guide Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

Topic

gothic romance

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

United States of America

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Augusta Jane Evans

E. D. E. N. Southworth

Margaret Mitchell

Daphne du Maurier

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Mary Stewart

Phyllis A. Whitney

Rosemary Rogers

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Grace Livingston Hill

(2000) Caught in the Web of Love: Intercepting the Young Adult Reception of Qiongyao's Romances On-Line Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 53.3-4:235-253

Topic

Pérez Casal, Inmaculada

(2018) Mass-market romance and the question of genre: N. Sparks, E. L. James and D. Gabaldon Oceánide 10:

Topic

Rani, Mohd. Zariat Abdul

(2012) Islam, Romance and Popular Taste in Indonesia: A textual analysis of Ayat ayat cinta by Habiburrahman El-Shirazy and Syahadat cinta by Taufiqurrahman Al-Azizy Indonesia and the Malay World 40.116:59-73 DOI: 10.1080/13639811.2011.648998

Topic

Indonesia

Habiburrahman El-Shirazy

Taufiqurrahman Al-Azizy

Islam

religion/spirituality

Sabino, Rosimeri Ferraz

Bezerra, Antônio Ponciano

(2020) Romance-folhetim em tela: linguagem, personagens e sentidos sociais DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada 36.4: DOI: 10.1590/1678-460X2020360406

Topic

Selinger, Eric Murphy

(2014) My Metatextual Romance: Thinking With (and About) Jaane Tu Ya Janne Na Mosaic 47.2:51-66 DOI: 10.1353/mos.2014.0013

Topic

film/movies

metafiction

Teo, Hsu-Ming

(2010) Historicizing The Sheik: Comparisons of the British Novel and the American Film Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1: