Love Across the Atlantic: Us-UK Romance in Popular Culture

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.Barbara Jane Brickman is Associate Professor of Media and Gender Studies at the University of Alabama. Deborah Jermyn is Reader in Film and TV at the University of Roehampton, where she is Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Cultures. Theodore Louis Trost is Professor in New College and the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabamama.