Imagining "We" in the Age of "I"

Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture

Imagining
Mary Harrod, Suzanne Leonard, Diane Negra
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30 Jul 2021 UK
9780367483272
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In the early twenty-first century shifts in gender and sexuality, work and mobility patterns and especially technology have provoked interest in perceived threats to social bonding on a global scale. This edited collection explores the fracturing of couple culture but also its persistence. Looking at a variety of media sites-including film, television, popular print fiction, new media and new technologies-this volume' s diverse range of contributors examine how mediated scenes of intimacy proliferate, while real-life experiences are cast in a newly uncertain light. The collection thus challenges a latent but growing tendency towards perceptions of romantic decline, in a variety of cultural contexts and with attention to the impact of COVID-19. This is an accessible and timely collection suitable for scholars in gender studies, media, cultural studies and communication studies.
"The notion of romantic love may be just a few centuries old, but human connections and intimacy in one way or another have always been essential to our existence. This accomplished collection arrives at a historical moment when we have been painfully reminded of all this. With welcome insight and inclusiveness, and with unimagined timeliness, the writers here bring new and illuminating approaches to bear on the many forms our bonding (and our isolation) take in today' s increasingly networked world. "Deborah Jermyn, Reader in Film & TV, University of Roehampton, Co-editor of Falling in Love Again (2003) and Love Across the Atlantic (2020)"A brilliant collection of essays held together by a common thread merging awareness of changing attitudes to gender, social and personal relationships, with analysis of the ever-same, ever-changing creative forms of romantic love and other expressions of intimacy. This is a seminal book for our uncertain times, every chapter addressing with clarity, sharpness and wide-ranging scholarship key questions related to the challenges of life in the shadows of the pandemic. "Peter William Evans, Emeritus Professor of Film, Queen Mary University of London"What perfect timing for an anthology exploring the new technologies and stories of romance! The writers in this collection offer savvy insights into recent cultural remakes of romantic love, shifts that were evident even before the pandemic unraveled our emotional lives and relationships. Engaging and surprising, these essays address the transnational scope of these transitions and the impact of both social and fictional media in reshaping the practices and meanings of intimacy. "Linda Mizejewski, Distinguished Professor of Women' s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University
Mary Harrod is Associate Professor in French Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of From France with Love: Gender and Identity in French Romantic Comedy (I. B. Tauris, 2015), Heightened Genre and Women' s Filmmaking in Hollywood (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and the co-edited collections The Europeanness of European Cinema (I. B. Tauris, 2015) and Women Do Genre in Film and Television (Routledge, 2017, winner of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Best Edited Collection Prize 2019). Suzanne Leonard is Professor of English and Director of the Master' s Degree in Gender and Cultural Studies at Simmons University in Boston. She is the author of Wife, Inc. : The Business of Marriage in the Twenty-First Century (2018) and Fatal Attraction (2009), and co-editor of Fifty Hollywood Directors (2014). Diane Negra is Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture at University College Dublin. She is the author, editor or co-editor of twelve books and serves as Chair of the Irish Fulbright Commission.
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ISBN-13: 9780367483272
Published: 30 Jul 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Routledge
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Format: Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 256

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