1st Edition
Love in Contemporary Cinema Audiences and Representations of Romance
By Benjamín de la Pava Vélez
Copyright 2021
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book looks at social representations of romantic love as portrayed in films and interpreted by their audiences, using cinema as a means for analysing the state of romantic love today, and the touchpoints and disconnects between its representation on screen and the lived experiences of film audiences.
Through a media sociology lens, the book draws on analysis of five contemporary romantic... Read more
Introduction
1. Celluloid love: Romance, ideology and self-commodification
2. Audience research, audiences of romance
3. Love and technology: Control, affordances and prejudice
4. A class apart: Love, expectation, and the middle-class construction of self
5. Of happy endings and new men
6. Conclusion
Biography
Benjamín de la Pava Vélez is a sociologist with a PhD in Media and Communication from the London School of Economics with a keen interest in the sociology of emotions, mediatisation, representations and critical theory.
