Introduction-a lot like love: the romantic comedy in contemporary cinema / Stacey Abbott and Deborah Jermyn — I [heart] NY: the rom-com’s love affair with New York City / Deborah Jermyn — Music, ritual, and genre in Edward Burn’s indie romantic comedies / Robynn J. Stilwell — Aprés le coup de foudre: narrative, love and spectatorship in Groundhog day / Paul Sutton — Prom-comes: reliving the dreams and nightmares of high-school romance / Stacy Abbott — The healing power of romantic love in popular Indian romantic comedies: Raja Hindustani: home elsewhere and elsewhere home / Sean Redmond — A ‘special relationship’? The coupling of Britain and America in working title’s romantic comedies / Annabelle Honess Roe — Transatlantic exchanges and influences: Décalage horaire (Jet lag), gender and the romantic comedy à la française / Brigitte Rollet — Romantic comedies and the raced body / Karen Bowdre — Armed and fabulous: Miss congeniality’s queer rom-com / Claire Hines — What a difference a gay makes: marriage in the 1990s romantic comedy / Kyle Stevens — Homme-com: engendering change in contemporary romantic comedy / Tamar Jeffers McDonald — Lost in transition: problems of modern (heterosexual) romance and the catatonic male hero in the post-feminist age / Janet McCabe — A new direction in comedian comedy?: Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Punch-drunk love and the post-comedian rom-com / Lesley Harbidge — ‘I believe that if I haven’t found my prince charming already, that I will; or he will find me, if he hasn’t ready’: Jennifer Lopez, romantic comedy and contemporary stardom / Alan Dodd and Martin Fradley — Le divorce: romance, separation and reconciliation / Hilary Radner.