{"id":15052,"date":"2022-02-08T09:30:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T14:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=15052"},"modified":"2022-02-08T09:30:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T14:30:53","slug":"episode-472-scott-meslow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-472-scott-meslow","title":{"rendered":"Episode 472 – Scott Meslow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 472:
\nScott Meslow<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Let’s pre-celebrate Valentine’s Day with a conversation with Scott Meslow<\/a>, author of the brand-new book, From Hollywood With Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy<\/a> (Dey Street Books)! We get into how Scott defines RomComs, what inspired him to chronicle their history, what these movies say about audiences & audience expectations, the entertainment industry, criticism, gender, and diversity trends, and plenty more. We talk about how he winnowed down his mega-list of key RomComs to 15 (+1 unmade movie), the one movie he hated having to cut, what led to the aforementioned rise-fall-rise of the genre, which movies haven’t aged well and which have grown better, the ways in which self-aware subversion of RomCom tropes degenerated into self-conscious excuses for making the same old movie, our shared love for Judy Greer<\/a>, and why he’s pulling for a Netflix RomCom Cinematic Universe to rival Marvel’s. We also discuss his accidental entry into journalism<\/a> and his interest in culture writ large, my love for Hudson Hawk<\/a>, how fandom has taken over the entertainment industry, the actor he thinks should have been a bigger hit, how he ended up with John Wick’s trunk<\/a>, and more! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read From Hollywood With Love<\/a>!<\/p>\n