Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture

Mary Harrod (Curatore)

Suzanne Leonard (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2021

Winner, MeCCSA Edited Collection of the Year, MeCCSA Outstanding Achievement Awards 2022 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.

• Curatore: Mary Harrod, Suzanne Leonard
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Anno: 2021
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 228 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 467 gr.
• EAN: 9780367483289

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