This webpage has an interesting list with some contemporary examples, including comments on how some of the twist or "subvert" the trope. Also lists for TV, literature and other media. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MeetCute Don Larsson ___________________________________________________ "I don't deduce. I observe." --Roger O Thornhill Donald F. Larsson, Professor English Department, Minnesota State University, Mankato Email: [log in to unmask] Note: I am currently on sabbatical leave until Fall Semester 2013. For IFO and contractual matters, please contact IFO President Nancy Black ([log in to unmask]) or Mankato faculty President Jim Grabowska ([log in to unmask]). ________________________________________ From: Film and TV Studies Discussion List [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Sandy Camargo [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 7:03 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [SCREEN-L] meets cute There's the one in Swingtime, between Astaire and Rogers. The meeting on the golf course between Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant is another great one. Sandy Camargo On Wednesday, August 8, 2012, Ross, Prof. Sara A. wrote: > > > Greetings, > > What are some of your favorite meet cutes? > > I want to show a bunch of them to my fall rom com class, and I don't want > to miss any especially choice ones. > > Thanks for any suggestions that you may have! > > Sally > > Sara Ross, PhD, 'Sally' > Associate Professor > Department of Communication and Media Studies > Sacred Heart University > > ---- > Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite > http://www.ScreenSite.org > -- Sandy Camargo Senior Lecturer in English and Adj. Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies University of Illinois Department of English 608 S. Wright Street 208 English Building Urbana, Illinois 61801 217-244-7717 ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: https://listserv.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org