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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and 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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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Man-woman relationships in literature.
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Man-woman relationships in literature. |
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Man-woman relationships in motion pictures.
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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. |
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England. |
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Man-woman relationships -- United States.
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Brickman, Barbara Jane, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1474452078 9781474452076 (OCoLC)1085203923 |
| ISBN |
9781474452090 electronic book |
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1474452094 electronic book |
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1474452078 |
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9781474452076 |
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1474452078 |
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9781474452076 |
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9781474452076 |
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