Love Across the Atlantic : : US-UK Romance in Popular Culture /

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

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 ke...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 15 B/W illustrations
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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

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