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Ruiz, Manuela

Manuela Ruiz is Senior Lecturer of English at the University of Zaragoza, where she received her Ph.D. in English.

Hollywood Romantic Comedies of the Fifties: A Critical Study of a Film Genre
2013 0-7734-3940-4
This text examines the transformative and countercultural nature of romantic comedies of the 1950s.

It is the first to analyze the transformative and countercultural nature of romantic comedies from the 1950s, a genre heretofore considered largely uncritical of the then-dominant culture.