Love Across the Atlantic
US-UK Romance in Popular Culture
- 313 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Love Across the Atlantic
US-UK Romance in Popular Culture
About this book
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 ā 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.
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Table of contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- The Contributors
- Introduction: Still Crazy After All These Years? The āSpecial Relationshipā in Popular Culture
- Part One ā[Not] Just a Girl, Standing in Front of a Boy . . . ā: Feminism, Women and Transatlantic Romance
- Part Two Love Beyond Borders: The Global City, Cosmopolitanism and Transatlantic Space
- Part Three Two Lovers Divided by a Common Language: āBritishnessā, āAmericannessā and Identity
- Part Four Political Coupledom: Flirting with the Special Relationship
- Index