I Do and I Don't. A History of Marriage in the Movies

From one of our leading film historians and interpreters: a brilliantly researched, irresistibly witty, delightfully illustrated examination of "the marriage movie"; what it is (or isn't) and what it has to tell us about the movies-and ourselves. As long as there have been feature movies there have been marriage movies, and yet Hollywood has always been cautious about how to label them-perhaps because, unlike any other genre of film, the marriage movie resonates directly with the experience of almost every adult coming to see it.
Here is "happily ever after"-except when things aren't happy, and when "ever after" is abruptly terminated by divorce, tragedy .