Based on Romance
Based on Romance
1979, English. Directed by Bruce Yonemoto & Norman Yonemoto.
This stylized narrative is the first in the Yonemotos' Soap Opera Series,in which they employ the traditional syntax and codes of melodrama to explore how mass media formulas manipulate desire and sexuality, fantasy and reality. Played out with the self-conscious acting and dialogue of a soap opera, this story of the dissolution of a contemporary romance is set in the context of the postmodern Southern California art scene. By emphasizing modes of representation — TV, movies, art — the Yonemotos reconstruct a narrative of melodrama itself, illustrating their assertion that personal dramas and romantic ideals are the result of media propaganda, a social fantasy that becomes reality.
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- 0h 24m
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Based on Romance runs 24 minutes (0h 24m).
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Based on Romance isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1979. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Based on Romance (1979) was directed by Bruce Yonemoto and Norman Yonemoto.