Aulia, Aura Ratu Callista, Griselda Supriatna, Hasya Ashila Fadhilah, Muhammad Ihsan Nabila, Syifa Hana Faizal, Zaira Yasmina (2025) A Comparison Study of the Effects of Romantic Films and Fictional Stories on Romantic Beliefs among Young Adults Psikologi Prima 8.2:222–238 DOI: 10.34012/psychoprima.v8i2.6325 Topic readers psychology 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 gender love C. J. Dennis film/movies
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 Brazil Faith Baldwin gender film/movies
Aulia, Aura Ratu Callista, Griselda Supriatna, Hasya Ashila Fadhilah, Muhammad Ihsan Nabila, Syifa Hana Faizal, Zaira Yasmina (2025) A Comparison Study of the Effects of Romantic Films and Fictional Stories on Romantic Beliefs among Young Adults Psikologi Prima 8.2:222–238 DOI: 10.34012/psychoprima.v8i2.6325 Topic readers psychology film/movies
Caton, Steven C. (2000) "The Sheik: Instabilities of Race and Gender in Transatlantic Popular Culture of the Early 1920s " Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930 99-117 Topic E. M. Hull United States of America UK race/ethnicity settings gender history rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse film/movies
Charlton, Michael (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 Publishing settings fashion/clothing film/movies 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
Aulia, Aura Ratu Callista, Griselda Supriatna, Hasya Ashila Fadhilah, Muhammad Ihsan Nabila, Syifa Hana Faizal, Zaira Yasmina (2025) A Comparison Study of the Effects of Romantic Films and Fictional Stories on Romantic Beliefs among Young Adults Psikologi Prima 8.2:222–238 DOI: 10.34012/psychoprima.v8i2.6325 Topic readers psychology film/movies
Aulia, Aura Ratu Callista, Griselda Supriatna, Hasya Ashila Fadhilah, Muhammad Ihsan Nabila, Syifa Hana Faizal, Zaira Yasmina (2025) A Comparison Study of the Effects of Romantic Films and Fictional Stories on Romantic Beliefs among Young Adults Psikologi Prima 8.2:222–238 DOI: 10.34012/psychoprima.v8i2.6325 Topic readers psychology film/movies
Fragero Guerra, Carmen (2014) "Soñar la vida": La narrativa de Carmen de Icaza (1936-1960) PhD, Universidad de Córdoba Topic Carmen de Icaza Luisa-María Linares history Spain 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 readers psychology India film/movies gender feminism
García-Aguilar, Alberto (2023) De la novela rosa a la comedia romántica: Mi marido es usted (1938), de Mercedes Ballesteros, y el guion de Volver a soñar (1942), de Claudio de la Torre y José López Rubio Ogigia. Revista Electrónica De Estudios Hispánicos 33:97–118 DOI: 10.24197/ogigia.33.2023.97-118 Topic Sylvia Visconti/Mercedes Ballesteros Gaibrois film/movies fascism/right-wing authoritarianism Spain family
Grescoe, Paul (1996) The Merchants of Venus: Inside Harlequin and the Empire of Romance Vancouver: Raincoast Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon Publishing Janet Dailey Barbara Cartland Charlotte Lamb Leigh Michaels Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb film/movies Heather Graham/Shannon Drake/Heather Graham Pozzessere Judith McNaught Anne Mather Violet Winspear
Hallett, Hilary A. (2022) Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood : Liveright Publishing Corporation Topic Elinor Glyn Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) film/movies
Heiss, Karin (2015) 14 Weeks of Love and Labour: Teaching Regency and Desert Romance to Undergraduate Students Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1: Topic teaching romance historical romance sheikh romance Georgette Heyer E. M. Hull Marguerite Kaye race/ethnicity film/movies Publishing
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
Ibrahim, Musa (2025) "Trans-Indian Ocean Cultural Flows: The Influence of Hindi Cinema on Hausa Popular Fictions " Currents of Metamorphosis across the Indian Ocean 65-86 Topic Nigeria film/movies
Kies, Bridget (2024) Saying “I Don’t”: Queer Romance in the Post–Marriage Equality World Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/YKLZ4173 Topic marriage happy ending LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors film/movies Alexis Hall
Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor (2026) The Fictional Female Presidency in Film, Television, and Literature: Representations from 1932 to 2024 New York: Bloomsbury Topic gender United States of America lesbian romance LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Casey McQuiston Blayne Cooper T. Novan film/movies
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 Spain film/movies war/armed forces work metafiction wealth/prosperity
Larkin, Brian (1997) Indian Films and Nigerian Lovers: Media and the Creation of Parallel Modernities Africa 67.3:406-440 DOI: 10.2307/1161182 Topic Nigeria film/movies Ado Ahmad Maryam Sahabi Liman
Murias, Rosana (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 gender film/movies history
Mussell, Kay (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 film/movies readers romance scholarship
Aulia, Aura Ratu Callista, Griselda Supriatna, Hasya Ashila Fadhilah, Muhammad Ihsan Nabila, Syifa Hana Faizal, Zaira Yasmina (2025) A Comparison Study of the Effects of Romantic Films and Fictional Stories on Romantic Beliefs among Young Adults Psikologi Prima 8.2:222–238 DOI: 10.34012/psychoprima.v8i2.6325 Topic readers psychology film/movies
Nielsen, Inge (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 Taiwan YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance readers Qiongyao/Qiong Yao film/movies translation fanfiction
O’Connell, Mark Joseph (2026) No more martyrs: Heated Rivalry, queer romance and the end of tragic legitimacy The Journal of Popular Television 14.2:161-179 DOI: 10.1386/jptv_00158_1 Topic LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Rachel Reid film/movies
Pataki Šumiga, Jelena (2026) “If not for her, nobody here would be reading this book”: Exploring Literary vs. Popular Fiction and Translation in Book of Love (2022) [sic] - A Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation 16.2: DOI: 10.15291/sic/2.16.lc.1 Topic translation film/movies
Pérez Casal, Inmaculada (2018) Mass-market romance and the question of genre: N. Sparks, E. L. James and D. Gabaldon Oceánide 10: Topic Diana Gabaldon Fifty Shades Nicholas Sparks genre definitions film/movies
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 paratext film/movies Publishing marriage Muslim romance
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 Brazil Faith Baldwin gender film/movies
Santaulària, M. Isabel (2023) "The Part of the Iceberg That Doesn’t Show: Romance, Good Husbands, and Mr Julia Child " Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture: In Search of Good Men 283-298 DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-22144-6_17 Topic film/movies gender marriage
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
Aulia, Aura Ratu Callista, Griselda Supriatna, Hasya Ashila Fadhilah, Muhammad Ihsan Nabila, Syifa Hana Faizal, Zaira Yasmina (2025) A Comparison Study of the Effects of Romantic Films and Fictional Stories on Romantic Beliefs among Young Adults Psikologi Prima 8.2:222–238 DOI: 10.34012/psychoprima.v8i2.6325 Topic readers psychology film/movies
Teo, Hsu-Ming (2010) Historicizing The Sheik: Comparisons of the British Novel and the American Film Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1: Topic E. M. Hull film/movies UK United States of America race/ethnicity history gender sex/sexuality war/armed forces rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
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Wintle, Sarah (1996) The Sheik: What Can be Made of a Daydream Women: A Cultural Review 7.3:291-302 DOI: 10.1080/09574049608578285 Topic E. M. Hull film/movies sex/sexuality gender race/ethnicity Robert Hitchens animals