Pretty Woman : The Romance of the Fair Unknown, Feminism, and Contemporary Romantic Comedy

Author / Editor
Scala, Elizabeth.

Title
Pretty Woman : The Romance of the Fair Unknown, Feminism, and Contemporary Romantic Comedy

Published
Film History 29.1-2: 34-45, 1999.

Description
Argues that the 1990 film Pretty Woman is understandable as an analogue to medieval Fair Unknown romances and that, like WBT, the film affirms and inverts the ideology of romance through self-conscious nostalgia.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.