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

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. Winner, MeCCSA Edited Collection of the Year, MeCCSA Outstanding Achievement Awards 2022In 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 sitesincluding film, television, popular print fiction, new media and new technologiesthis volumes 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. Wydawnictwo: Taylor & Francis Rok wydania: 2021 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 228 Wymiary: 15.5 x 23.3 x 1.8 cm Ilustracje: 36 Halftones, black and white; 36 Illustrations, black and white Język: angielski ISBN: 9780367483272