Love Across the Atlantic: Us-Uk Romance in Popular Culture

ISBN-13: 9781474452083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 312 str.

Barbara Brickman;Deborah Jermyn;Theodore Trost

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Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; INTRODUCTION: Still crazy after all these years?: The 'special relationship' in popular media; 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', Karen Randell and Alexis Weedon; 2: 'World Turned Upside Down: The Role of Revolutions in Maya Rodale's Regency-Set', Veera Mäkelä; 3: 'Bridget Jones's Special Relationship: No Filth, Please, We're Brexiteers', William Brown; 4: 'Sharon Horgan, postfeminism and the transatlantic psycho-politics of "woemantic" comedy', Caroline Bainbridge; 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', Martha Shearerl; 6: 'Catastrophe: Transatlantic Love in East London', Frances Smith'; 7: 'On the Fragility of Love Across the Atlantic: Cosmopolitanism and Transatlantic Romance in Drake Doremus's Like Crazy (2011)', Manuela Ruiz; 8: 'The mise-en-scène of romance and transatlantic desire: exploring genre, space and place in Nancy Meyers's The Parent Trap and The Holiday', Deborah Jermyn; PART THREE: Two lovers divided by a common language: 'British-ness', 'American-ness' and identity; 9: '"American, a slut, and out of your league": Working Title's equivocal relationship with Americanness', Jay Bamber; 10: '"It's the American Dream": British audiences and the contemporary Hollywood rom-com', Alice Guilluy; 11: 'Business-like Lords and Gentlemanly Businessmen: The Romance Hero in Lisa Kleypas's Wallflowers Series', Inmaculada Pérez-Casal; 12: 'Imagine: The Beatles, John Lennon, and love across borders', Theodore Louis Trost; 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', Shelley Cobb; 14: '"I Will Be with You, Whatever": Blair and Bush's Baghdadi Bromance', Hannah Hamad; 15: 'Holding hands as the ship sinks: Trump and May's special relationship', Neil Ewen; 16: '"Harry has gone over to the dark side": Race, Royalty and US-UK Romance in Brexit Britain', Nathalie Weidhase.