Is love really all around?
Pre-session material:
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Academic Review:
Tanya Horeck's review of 'Happy endings in Hollywood cinema: cliché, convention and the final couple' (2014) published in New Review of Film and Television Studies, 12:1, 77-82:
YouTube Videos:
Two clips from ABC's 20th anniversary special: 'The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later', where Love Actually director, Richard Curtis famously commented: "There are things that you would change, but thank God society is changing. My film is bound in some moments to feel out of date. The lack of diversity makes me feel uncomfortable and a bit stupid.”
'Love Actually' reflects on the film's lasting legacy’:
‘Why themes from ‘Love Actually’ film resonate today, 20 years after creation’:
Non-Academic Articles
Lindy West, 'I Rewatched Love Actually and Am Here to Ruin It for All of You' (2013) Jezebel