{"product_id":"imagining-we-in-the-age-mary-harrod-9780367483289","title":"Imagining \"We\" in the Age of \"I\": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner, MeCCSA Edited Collection of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, MeCCSA Outstanding Achievement Awards 2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooking 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an accessible and timely collection suitable for scholars in gender studies, media, cultural studies and communication studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Harrod\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367483289\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367483289\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Mary Harrod","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136011383039,"sku":"9780367483289","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_50473868-2369-45a5-bb98-d77deee00b66.jpg?v=1770159917","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/imagining-we-in-the-age-mary-harrod-9780367483289","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}