Time Travel Romance: A Fantasy Escape to a Glorious Space

Shelf Love: Romantic Love Stories in Pop Culture

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Time Travel Romance: A Fantasy Escape to a Glorious Space

Shelf Love

Mar 08, 2022

Have you ever wished you could just escape the anxieties and mundanity of modern life by traveling back to Qing Dynasty China? How does time travel romance create a simulacra of a “glorious and wealthy feudal past” that allows audiences to “effortlessly become a love interest and an admired woman through the male gaze shaped by multiple admirers”?

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Discussed:

Startling by Each Step (2011)
Palace (2011)

Guest: Dr. Huike Wen

Professor teaching media studies and global cultural studies at Willamette University

Website | Romance in Post-Socialist Chinese Television

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Shelf Love: Romantic Love Stories in Pop Culture

Shelf Love explores fictional stories of romantic love across media, time, and cultures. For the curious and open-minded who joyfully question as they consume pop culture. What's love got to do with it? Quite a bit!

From the page to the stage, on the screen or in the wrestling ring: Shelf Love invites experts to share their knowledge and love for diverse genres and how they help us explore romantic love, including romance novels, comic books, soap operas, romantic comedies, video games, oral stories, advertisements, and more, and introduces theory alongside applications and accessible explanations.

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