Armelle Parey, Isabelle Robin and Dominique Sipière, eds. : Happy Endings and Films

Happy Endings and Films focuses on a topic that, as the selective bibliography shows, has rarely been analyzed (Richard Neupert’s The End: Narration and Closure in the Cinema is probably the most notable book on the subject). And yet, as the editors recall in their efficient introduction, assumptions about happy endings abound: they are often associated with Hollywood and generally thought to be simple, conventional and conservative, and thus ultimately suspicious and acceptable only when iro..