A timely intervention into debates on the representation of feminist and feminine identities in contemporary visual culture. The essays in this collection interrogate how and why certain formulations of feminism and femininity are currently prevalent in mainstream cinema and television, offering new insights into postfeminist media phenomena. MELANIE WATERS Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Northumbria University, UK. She has published articles in journals such as 'Journal of International Women's Studies 'and 'Poetry and Life Writing 'and contributed a chapter to the second edition of 'Third Wave Feminism.' She is the co-author of 'Feminism and Popular Culture' (2010) and her forthcoming monograph is a critical investigation of vampirism in the contemporary gothic. INDICE: Acknowledgements - Note on the Contributors - Introduction - PART I: GENERATIONS - Nancy Meyers and Popular Feminism; 'K.Glitre - ''I'm nothing like you!' Postfeminist Generationalism and Female Stardom in the ContemporaryChick Flick; 'S.Cobb - Alias': Quality Television and the New Woman Professional; 'R.White - 'The Horrors of Home: Feminism and Femininity in the Suburban Gothic; 'M.Waters - 'PART II: SEX AND SEXUALITY - Bad Girls in Crisis: The NewTeenage Femme Fatale; 'K.Farrimond' - Butch Lesbians: Televising Female Masculinity; 'H.Fenwick' - 'Challenging and Alternative': Screening Queer Girls on Channel 4; 'M.Zeller-Jacques' - PART III: THE MAKEOVER - Under the Knife: Feminism and Cosmetic Surgery in Contemporary Culture; 'S.Genz' - Imperialist Projections: Manners, Makeovers, and Models of Nationality; 'B.R.Weber' - Femininity Repackaged: Postfeminism and 'Ladette to Lady'; 'A.Smith' - Performing Postfeminist Identities: Gender, Costume and Transformation in Teen Cinema; 'S.Gilligan - 'PART IV: VIOLENCE - Return of the 'Angry Woman': Authenticating Female Physical Action in Contemporary Cinema; 'L.Purse' - Negotiating Shifts in Feminism: The 'Bad' Girls of James Bond; 'L.Funnell' - A Pathological Romance: Authority, Expert Knowledge and the Postfeminist Profiler; 'L.Steenberg' - 'A Caligula-like despot': Matriarchal Tyranny in 'The Sopranos'; 'A.Gething - 'Index -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-22965-5
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 08/02/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido