Imagining “We” in the Age of “I”: Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture
Suzanne Leonard, "Imagining “We” in the Age of “I”: Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture"
English | ISBN: 0367483270 | 2021 | 228 pages | PDF | 43 MB
English | ISBN: 0367483270 | 2021 | 228 pages | PDF | 43 MB
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.
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