| Era | Dominant Format | Key Tropes | Examples | |------|----------------|------------|----------| | 1930s–1940s | Classic Hollywood | Forbidden love, sacrifice | Casablanca | | 1950s–1960s | Melodrama | Illness, social taboo | Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing | | 1970s–1980s | New Hollywood | Realism, bittersweet endings | Annie Hall , The Way We Were | | 1990s–2000s | Blockbuster romance | Disaster romance, epic scale | Titanic , The Notebook | | 2010s–2020s | Streaming & indie | Diverse voices, complex psychology | Normal People , Past Lives |
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Short runtime that feels more like a fragment than a full feature film. | Era | Dominant Format | Key Tropes
Lovers kept apart by fate, war, or family feuds. bittersweet endings | Annie Hall
