Love in Contemporary Cinema: Audiences and Representations of Romance

ISBN-13: 9780367758523 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 168 str.

Benjam?n de la Pava V?lez

Opis

Drawing on media sociology and group interviews, this book looks at social representations of romantic love as portrayed in films and interpreted by their audiences, using cinema as a means for analysing the state of romantic love today, and the touchpoints and disconnects between its representation on screen and our lived experiences.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Celluloid love: Romance, ideology and self-commodification 2. Audience research, audiences of romance 3. Love and technology: Control, affordances and prejudice 4. A class apart: Love, expectation, and the middle-class construction of self 5. Of happy endings and new men 6. Conclusion

O autorze

Benjamín de la Pava Vélez is a sociologist with a PhD in Media and Communication from the London School of Economics with a keen interest in the sociology of emotions, mediatisation, representations and critical theory.