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Postfeminist Whiteness : Problematising Melancholic Burden in Contemporary Hollywood /
Addresses postfeminist media culture's emphasis on socioeconomic privilegeIn the first extended study into the politics of whiteness inherent within postfeminist cinema, Kendra Marston interrogates representations of melancholic white femininity in contemporary Hollywood cinema, arguing that th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The World Is Her Oyster: Negotiating Contemporary White Womanhood in Hollywood's Tourist Spaces
- 2 'Hoist the Colours!' Framing Feminism through Charismatic White Leadership in the Fantasy Blockbuster
- 3 Neoliberalism, Female Agency and Conspicuous Consumption as Tragic Flaw in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine
- 4 Paranoid Attachments to Suburban Dreams: Pathological Femininity in Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train
- 5 Aristocratic Whiteness, Body Trauma and the Market Logic of Melancholia in Black Swan
- 6 Sofia Coppola's Melancholic Aesthetic: Vanishing Femininity in an Object-oriented World
- Conclusion: Melancholic White Femininity, Cultural Resonance and the Shifting Politics of Representation
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index