Love Across the Atlantic : : US-UK Romance in Popular Culture / / Theodore Louis Trost, Barbara Jane Brickman, Deborah Jermyn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Brickman, Barbara Jane,; Jermyn, Deborah,; Trost, Theodore Louis,
• MitwirkendeR: Bainbridge, Caroline,; Bamber, Jay,; Brickman, Barbara Jane,; Brown, William,; Cobb, Shelley,; Ewen, Neil,; Guilluy, Alice,; Hamad, Hannah,; Jermyn, Deborah,; Mäkelä, Veera,; Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada,; Randell, Karen,; Ruiz, Manuela,; Shearer, Martha,; Smith, Frances,; Trost, Theodore Louis,; Weedon, Alexis,; Weidhase, Nathalie,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 15 B/W illustrations

An interdisciplinary exploration of the enduring, and often fraught, cultural fascination surrounding British-American romanceThe first scholarly collection to consider the diverse ways in which US-UK romance, framed here through the lens of ‘the special relationship’, has been represented across key sites in a range of popular mediaLooks at both historical and contemporary case-studies drawn from across film, television, music, literature, news and politics from the last centuryConsiders pressing questions of identity and desire for subjects impacted by globalisation, cosmopolitanism, transnational relations and neoliberal political and economic policiesWinston Churchill famously described the political alliance between the US and UK as a ‘special relationship’, but throughout the cultural history of these two countries there have existed transatlantic ‘special relationships’ of another kind – affairs between British and American citizens who have fallen in love, with one another but often too with the idea(l) of that other place across the ocean. From romantic novelist Elinor Glyn in the 1920s to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle today, this collection examines some of the history, contemporary manifestations and enduring appeal of US-UK romance across popular culture. Looking at both historical and contemporary case-studies, drawn from across film, television, music, literature, news and politics, this is a timely intervention into the popular romantic discourse of US-UK relations, at a critical and transitional moment in the ongoing viability of the special relationship.ContributorsJay Bamber, independent scholar Caroline Bainbridge, University of Roehampton Barbara Jane Brickman, University of AlabamaWilliam Brown, University of RoehamptonShelley Cobb, University of Southampton Neil Ewen, University of WinchesterAlice Guilluy, London Film AcademyHannah Hamad, Cardiff UniversityDeborah Jermyn, University of RoehamptonVeera Mäkelä, University of HelsinkiInmaculada Pérez-Casal, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Karen Randell, Nottingham Trent UniversityManuela Ruiz, University of ZaragozaMartha Shearer, King's College LondonFrances Smith, University of Sussex Theodore Louis Trost, University of AlabamaAlexis Weedon, University of BedfordshireNathalie Weidhase, Birmingham City University

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- The Contributors -- Introduction: Still Crazy After All These Years? The ‘Special Relationship’ in Popular Culture -- Part One ‘[Not] Just a Girl, Standing in Front of a Boy . . . ’: Feminism, Women and Transatlantic Romance -- 1 Atlantic Liners, It Girls and Old Europe in Elinor Glyn’s Romantic Adventures -- 2 ‘World Turned Upside Down’: The Role of Revolutions in Maya Rodale’s Regency-set Romances -- 3 Bridget Jones’s Special Relationship: No Filth, Please, We’re Brexiteers -- 4 Sharon Horgan, Postfeminism and the Transatlantic Psycho-politics of ‘Woemantic’ Comedy -- Part Two Love Beyond Borders: The Global City, Cosmopolitanism and Transatlantic Space -- 5 ‘British People Are Awful’: Gentrification, Queerness and Race in the US–UK Romances of Looking and You’re the Worst -- 6 Catastrophe: Transatlantic Love in East London -- 7 On the Fragility of Love Across the Atlantic: Cosmopolitanism and Transatlantic Romance in Drake Doremus’s Like Crazy (2011) -- 8 The Mise-en-scène of Romance and Transatlantic Desire: Genre, Space and Place in Nancy Meyers’s The Parent Trap and The Holiday -- Part Three Two Lovers Divided by a Common Language: ‘Britishness’, ‘Americanness’ and Identity -- 9 ‘American, a Slut, and Out of Your League’: Working Title’s Equivocal Relationship with Americanness -- 10 ‘It’s the American Dream’: British Audiences and the Contemporary Hollywood Romcom -- 11 Business-like Lords and Gentlemanly Businessmen: The Romance Hero in Lisa Kleypas’s Wallflowers Series -- 12 Imagine: The Beatles, John Lennon and Love Across Borders -- Part Four Political Coupledom: Flirting with the Special Relationship -- 13 ‘Political Soulmates’: The ‘Special Relationship’ of Reagan and Thatcher and the Powerful Chemistry of Celebrity Coupledom -- 14 ‘I Will Be with You, Whatever’: Bush and Blair’s Baghdadi Bromance -- 15 Holding Hands as the Ship Sinks: Trump and May’s Special Relationship -- 16 ‘Prince Harry Has Gone Over to the Dark Side’: Race, Royalty and US–UK Romance in Brexit Britain -- Index