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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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9781474452083

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Spanning a century of representations, from the novels of Elinor Glyn to the Prince Harry/Meghan Markle royal romance, this volume, scholarly and entertaining in equal parts, explores the seemingly endless dimensions and ambiguities of what Alice Guilluy amusingly calls 'a (somewhat) special relationship' between the UK-US through the focus of romantic comedy, bringing together, in a surprisingly coherent whole, cosmopolitanism and gentrification, Julia Roberts and Tony Blair, Bridget Jones and Donald Trump, Obama and Sharon Horgan, the Beatles and Brexit - an endlessly inventive book and a must read for those who, in and outside the academy, continue to dispute the cultural relevance of romcom.--Professor Celestino Deleyto, University of Zaragoza

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Deborah Jermyn, Reader in Film & TV, Roehampton University. Theodore Trost

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