Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Love across the Atlantic : US-UK romance in popular culture / edited by Barbara Jane Brickman, [and 2 others]
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2020]

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Contents 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
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 --
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Man-woman relationships in literature.
Man-woman relationships in motion pictures.
Man-woman relationships -- England
Man-woman relationships -- United States
Man-woman relationships
Man-woman relationships in literature
Man-woman relationships in motion pictures
England
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Brickman, Barbara Jane, editor.
ISBN 9781474452090
1474452094
1474452078
9781474452076
9781474452106
1474452108