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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 - 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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Acknowledgements
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List of Contributors
INTRODUCTION - Still crazy after all these years?: The 'special relationship' in popular media
PART ONE - '[Not] just a girl, standing in front of a boy...': Feminism, women and transatlantic romance
1. 'Atlantic Liners, It Girls and Old Europe in Elinor Glyn's Romantic Adventures', by Karen Randell and Alexis Weedon
2. '"World Turned Upside Down": The Role of Revolutions in Maya Rodale's Regency-Set Romances', by Veera Mäkelä
3. 'Bridget Jones's Special Relationship: No Filth, Please, We're Brexiteers', by William Brown
4. 'Sharon Horgan, postfeminism and the transatlantic psycho-politics of "woemantic" comedy', by Caroline Bainbridge
PART TWO - Love beyond borders: The global city, cosmopolitanism and transatlantic space
5. '"British people are awful": Gentrification, queerness and race in the US-UK romances of Looking and You're the Worst', by Martha Shearer
6. 'Catastrophe: Transatlantic Love in East London', by Frances Smith
7. 'On the Fragility of Love Across the Atlantic: Cosmopolitanism and Transatlantic Romance in Drake Doremus's Like Crazy (2011)', by Manuela Ruiz
8. 'Nancy Meyers's The Parent Trap and The Holiday, and the mise-en-scène of romance and transatlantic space', by Deborah Jermyn
PART THREE - Two lovers divided by a common language: 'British-ness', 'American-ness' and identity
9. '"American, a slut, and out of your league": Working Title's equivocal relationship with Americanness', by Jay Bamber
10. '"It's the American Dream": British audiences and the contemporary Hollywood rom-com', by Alice Guilluy
11. 'Business-like Lords and Gentlemanly Businessmen: The Romance Hero in Lisa Kleypas's Wallflowers Series', by Inmaculada Pérez-Casal
12. 'Imagine: The Beatles, John Lennon, and love across borders', by Theodore Louis Trost
PART FOUR - Political coupledom: Flirting with the special relationship
13. '"Political Soulmates": the "Special Relationship" of Reagan and Thatcher, and the Powerful Chemistry of Celebrity Coupledom', by Shelley Cobb
14. '"I Will Be with You, Whatever": Blair and Bush's Baghdadi Bromance', by Hannah Hamad
15. 'Holding hands as the ship sinks: Trump and May's special relationship', by Neil Ewen
16. '"Harry has gone over to the dark side": Race, Royalty and US-UK Romance in Brexit Britain', by Nathalie Weidhase
