# How is romantic-comedy film structure described in open sources (meet-cute, meet/lose/get, obstacles), and how does it differ from print romance structure?

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Open scholarship describes the rom-com's basic plot as boy meets girl, loses girl, gets girl (Bowdre, via Kies), with a meet-cute as a screen hallmark that may be absent from print romance. Amaral (Networking Knowledge 2020) argues the middle runs on a 'temporality of the almost': repeated near-unions blocked by obstacles that function as desire propellers, often the characters' own flaws, and contrasts these with the real barrier of romance. A romance author relays Mernit's seven beats (page-cited) and maps them onto novels and the film You've Got Mail. No open primary film-structure text (Mernit's book, Bowdre, Mortimer) was readable, so those appear only through relays.

Open scholarship describes the rom-com's basic plot as boy meets girl, loses girl, gets girl (Bowdre, via Kies), with a meet-cute as a screen hallmark that may be absent from print romance. Amaral (Networking Knowledge 2020) argues the middle runs on a 'temporality of the almost': repeated near-unions blocked by obstacles that function as desire propellers, often the characters' own flaws, and contrasts these with the real barrier of romance. A romance author relays Mernit's seven beats (page-cited) and maps them onto novels and the film You've Got Mail. No open primary film-structure text (Mernit's book, Bowdre, Mortimer) was readable, so those appear only through relays.

Curator qualifications: All excerpts located; meet/lose/get and meet-cute; obstacle interpretation differs (Kies vs Amaral).

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.jprstudies.org/2024/03/saying-i-dont-queer-romance-in-the-post-marriage-equality-world/",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/article/download/581/377/1673",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://kayedacus.com/2008/04/28/writing-the-romance-novel-the-seven-story-beats/",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://kayedacus.com/2008/05/04/writing-the-romance-novel-beats-6-7/",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.jprstudies.org/2023/02/genre-savvy-protagonists-in-queer-ya-rom-coms/",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.jprstudies.org/2022/11/review-after-happily-ever-after-romantic-comedy-in-the-post-romantic-edited-by-maria-san-filippo/",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Open scholarship describes the rom-com's basic plot as boy meets girl, loses girl, gets girl (Bowdre, via Kies), with a meet-cute as a screen hallmark that may be absent from print romance. Amaral (Networking Knowledge 2020) argues the middle runs on a 'temporality of the almost': repeated near-unions blocked by obstacles that function as desire propellers, often the characters' own flaws, and contrasts these with the real barrier of romance. A romance author relays Mernit's seven beats (page-cited) and maps them onto novels and the film You've Got Mail. No open primary film-structure text (Mernit's book, Bowdre, Mortimer) was readable, so those appear only through relays. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://www.jprstudies.org/2024/03/saying-i-dont-queer-romance-in-the-post-marriage-equality-world/

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