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Intro -- List of 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 |
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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 Holiday -- |
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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 |
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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 |
Summary |
From romantic novelist Elinor Glyn in the 1920s to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle today, this collection examines some of the BG, contemporary manifestations and enduring appeal of US-UK romance across popular culture |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Man-woman relationships in literature.
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Man-woman relationships in motion pictures.
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Man-woman relationships -- England
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Man-woman relationships -- United States
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Man-woman relationships
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Man-woman relationships in literature
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Man-woman relationships in motion pictures
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England
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United States
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Brickman, Barbara Jane, editor.
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ISBN |
9781474452090 |
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1474452094 |
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1474452078 |
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9781474452076 |
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9781474452106 |
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1474452108 |
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