Imagining 'we' in the age of 'I' romance and social bonding in contemporary culture

"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. Loo...

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Weitere Verfasser: Harrod, Mary (HerausgeberIn), Leonard, Suzanne (HerausgeberIn), Negra, Diane (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2022
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:xii, 227 Seiten
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ISBN:9780367483272
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