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Gender and austerity in popular culture : femininity, masculinity & recession in film & television /
"From the gritty landscapes of The Hunger Games and The Walking Dead, to the portrayal of the twenty-first-century precariat in Girls, this book explores how transatlantic visual culture has represented and reconstructed ideas of gender in times of financial crisis. Drawing on social, cultural...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
I.B. Tauris,
2017.
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| Colección: | Library of gender and popular culture ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Author Bio; Endorsement; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Series Editors' Foreword; Introduction: Boom and Bust? Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture; Austere Times for Feminism? Gendering the Recession; Feminism Goes Pop: Constructing Culture, Constructing (Post)Femininities; Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture: Chapter Summaries; Notes; Bibliography; 1 A Big Neo-Victorian Society?: Gender, Austerity and Conservative Family Values in The Mill.
- Dependency, Responsibility and Gendering the Recession: David Cameron's Family ValuesPaternal Problems: Gendering the Working Body in The Mill, Series One; Austere Times for Feminism? The Mill, Series Two; Notes; Bibliography; 2 The Downturn at Downton: Money and Masculinity in Downton Abbey; The Ruin of Robert Crawley; Austerity at the Abbey; The Post-Recessional Fool; Conclusion: Lessons from the Abbey; Notes; Bibliography; 3 Wartime Housewives and Vintage Women: A.S. Byatt's Ragnarok: The End of the Gods and Reframing Popular Nostalgia; Conclusions: Feminist Mythopoeia and Horizons; Notes.
- 5 From Homebuyer Advisor to Angel of the Hearth: The Development of Kirstie Allsopp as the Female Face of Channel 4 'Squeezed Middle' Austerity ProgrammingNotes; Bibliography; 6 The Walking Dead and Gendering Zombie Austerity; Cutting Back: The Walking Dead's Industrial and Narrative Austerity; White Males Back on Top in the Zombie Apocalypse; Note; Bibliography; 7 Embodying Austerity: Food and Physicality in The Hunger Games; Austere Consumption; Spectacle and Consumption; Consumable Bodies; Bibliography; 8 'I Want What Everyone Wants': Cruel Optimism in HBO's Girls; Girls and the Millennial.
- Cruel OptimismThe Impasse of 'One Man's Trash'; 'I Want What Everyone Wants': Hannah's Confession; Conclusion: Girls' Cruel Optimism; Notes; Bibliography; 9 Baring the Recession: Sexual Sensationalism and Gender (A)politics in Contemporary Culture; Austerity Neoliberalism and Boob and Bust Politics; Gotta Fuck and Post-Sexism; Notes; Bibliography.