Love Across the Atlantic

US-UK Romance in Popular Culture

Barbara Jane Brickman, Deborah Jermyn, Theodore Louis Trost (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-5207-6 (ISBN)

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Winston Churchill famously described the political alliance between the US and UK as a ‘special relationship’, but throughout the cultural history of these two countries there have existed transatlantic ‘special relationships’ of another kind – affairs between British and American citizens who have fallen in love, with one another but often too with the idea(l) of that other place across the ocean. From romantic novelist Elinor Glyn in the 1920s to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle today, this collection examines some of the history, contemporary manifestations and enduring appeal of US-UK romance across popular culture. Looking at both historical and contemporary case-studies, drawn from across film, television, music, literature, news and politics, this is a timely intervention into the popular romantic discourse of US-UK relations, at a critical and transitional moment in the ongoing viability of the special relationship.

Barbara Jane Brickman is Associate Professor of Media and Gender Studies at the University of Alabama. Her work has appeared in Camera Obscura, The Journal of Film and Video, and Journal of Popular Music Studies. Since the publication of her first book, New American Teenagers: The Lost Generation of Youth in 1970s Film, she has written a volume on the film Grease for the Cinema and Youth Cultures series. She is also the founder and director of the Druid City Girls Media Camp in Tuscaloosa, AL. Deborah Jermyn is Reader in Film & TV at the University of Roehampton, where she is Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Cultures. She is author and editor of 11 books, including Nancy Meyers (2017) and (with Stacey Abbott) Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema (2009). She continues to work on gender, genre, and Hollywood, with a particular interest in ageing femininities. Theodore Louis Trost holds a joint appointment in the New College and the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, where he teaches courses in religion and popular culture, the Gospel of Mark, and songwriting. He received his doctorate from Harvard University in American religious history. He also worked for nine years as a flight attendant with the now-defunct Pan American World Airways.

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', by Karen Randell and Alexis Weedon

2. '"World Turned Upside Down": The Role of Revolutions in Maya Rodale's Regency-Set Romances', by Veera Mäkelä

3. 'Bridget Jones's Special Relationship: No Filth, Please, We're Brexiteers', by William Brown

4. 'Sharon Horgan, postfeminism and the transatlantic psycho-politics of "woemantic" comedy', by 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', by Martha Shearer

6. 'Catastrophe: Transatlantic Love in East London', by Frances Smith

7. 'On the Fragility of Love Across the Atlantic: Cosmopolitanism and Transatlantic Romance in Drake Doremus's Like Crazy (2011)', by Manuela Ruiz

8. 'Nancy Meyers's The Parent Trap and The Holiday, and the mise-en-scène of romance and transatlantic space', by 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', by Jay Bamber

10. '"It's the American Dream": British audiences and the contemporary Hollywood rom-com', by Alice Guilluy

11. 'Business-like Lords and Gentlemanly Businessmen: The Romance Hero in Lisa Kleypas's Wallflowers Series', by Inmaculada Pérez-Casal

12. 'Imagine: The Beatles, John Lennon, and love across borders', by 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', by Shelley Cobb

14. '"I Will Be with You, Whatever": Blair and Bush's Baghdadi Bromance', by Hannah Hamad

15. 'Holding hands as the ship sinks: Trump and May's special relationship', by Neil Ewen

16. '"Harry has gone over to the dark side": Race, Royalty and US-UK Romance in Brexit Britain', by Nathalie Weidhase

Erscheinungsdatum	05.03.2020
Zusatzinfo	15 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	606 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-5207-8 / 1474452078
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-5207-6 / 9781474452076
Zustand	Neuware