Imagining We in the Age of I: Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture

ISBN-13: 9780367483272 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 228 str.

Mary Harrod; Suzanne Leonard; Diane Negra

Opis

In the early twenty-first century shifts in gender and sexuality, work and mobility patterns and especially technology have provoked interest in perceived threats to social bonding on a global scale. This edited collection explores the fracturing of couple culture but also its persistence.

Spis treści

Introduction: Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture – Before and After COVID-19; 1 Abject Desires in the Age of Anger: Incels, Femcels and the Gender Politics of Unfuckability; 2 Love Technologies: Televisual Matchmaking and Algorithmic Attraction; 3 Negotiating Romantic Relationships in the Cell Phone Age: The Jamaican Context; 4 Facing the Fig Tree: Contemporary Intimacy Culture in Master of None; 5 Open (to) Marriage: Saving Sanctioned Coupling through Consensual Nonmonogamy Narratives; 6 Aliens, Mermaids and Cartoons: Neoliberal Gender Politics in Twenty-First Century South Korean Dramas; 7 Romantic, Transnational and Messy: Intimate Spaces/Cosmopolitan Spaces in Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong; 8 Mixed Feelings: (Inter)Raced Romance and the Post-Millennial Romantic Comedy; 9 The Bittersweet Queer Romance: Affect and Temporality in Weekend and Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo; 10 Plaisirs d’amour: Love and Popular Fiction in Contemporary France; 11 His Baby Daddy is an Alien?!: Mpreg Fantasies and Queer Reproductive Intimacies in Contemporary M/M Science Fiction Romance ; 12 Bibliographic Traces: The Material Book and the Quest for Intimacy in Spike Jonze’s Her