This course explores the intersections of historical and contemporary media narratives, technologies, and industries in the construction and representation of mainstream romance narratives. Romance tropes and myths will be deconstructed through feminist, queer, disability and decolonial theories of gender, class, sexuality, race and body image at the intersections of film, music, literature, tv, video games and/or social media to expose marginalizing and disempowering tropes at the center of dominant constructions and representations of romantic love.