Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster

2017-02-21 Performing Arts

Author : Anthea Taylor
Release : 2017-02-21
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 342/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster by : Anthea Taylor

Download or read book Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster written by Anthea Taylor. This book was released on 2017-02-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book-length study of celebrity feminism, Anthea Taylor convincingly argues that the most visible feminists in the mediasphere have been authors of bestselling works of non-fiction: feminist ‘blockbusters’. Celebrity and The Feminist Blockbuster explores how the authors of these popular feminist books have shaped the public identity of modern feminism, in some cases over many decades. Maintaining a distinction between women who are famous because of their feminism and those who later add feminism to their ‘brand’, Taylor contends that Western celebrity feminism, as a political mode of public subjectivity, cannot in any simple way be seen as homologous with other forms of stardom. Moving deftly from the 1960s to the present, focusing on how feminist authors have actively worked to manufacture their public personas, she demonstrates that the blockbuster remains crucial to feminist celebrification but is now often augmented with digital media. Advancing celebrity studies by placing the figure of the feminist front and centre, Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster is essential reading for all those interested in gender, popular feminism, and the politics of renown.

Lights, Camera, Feminism?

2023-05-16 Political Science

Author : Samantha Majic
Release : 2023-05-16
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 903/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Lights, Camera, Feminism? by : Samantha Majic

Download or read book Lights, Camera, Feminism? written by Samantha Majic. This book was released on 2023-05-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrities in the United States have drawn significant attention and resources to the complex issue of human trafficking—a subject of feminist concern—and they are often criticized for promoting sensationalized and simplistic understandings of the issue. In this comprehensive analysis of celebrities’ anti-trafficking activism, however, Samantha Majic finds that this phenomenon is more nuanced: even as some celebrities promote regressive issue narratives and carceral solutions, others use their platforms to elevate more diverse representations of human trafficking and feminist analyses of gender inequality. Lights, Camera, Feminism? thus argues that we should understand celebrities as multilevel political actors whose activism is shaped and mediated by a range of personal and contextual factors, with implications for feminist and democratic politics more broadly.

The New Feminist Literary Studies

2020-12-03 Literary Criticism

Author : Jennifer Cooke
Release : 2020-12-03
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 935/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis The New Feminist Literary Studies by : Jennifer Cooke

Download or read book The New Feminist Literary Studies written by Jennifer Cooke. This book was released on 2020-12-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents essays by feminists of theory and literature that examine contemporary feminism and the most pressing issues of today.

Gender and Australian Celebrity Culture

2020-12-29 Social Science

Author : Anthea Taylor
Release : 2020-12-29
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 98X/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Gender and Australian Celebrity Culture by : Anthea Taylor

Download or read book Gender and Australian Celebrity Culture written by Anthea Taylor. This book was released on 2020-12-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intellectually vibrant volume is the first collection to deal with Australian celebrity in ways that account for both cultural and gendered specificities, demonstrating how gendered ways of imagining Australia are reinforced and contested in celebrity representations and self-presentations. Gender and Australian Celebrity Culture engages with celebrities across a diverse range of fields – actors, journalists, athletes, comedians, writers, and television personalities – and in doing so critically reflects upon different forms of Australian fame and the media platforms and practices that sustain them. Authors in this volume engage directly with pertinent issues relating to gender and sexuality, including celebrity feminism and the generative capacity of feminist rage; normative femininity and its instability; hegemonic masculinities; and queerness and its (in)visibility. Contributors also intervene in a number of ongoing debates in media and cultural studies more broadly, including those around the politics and affordances of digital media; whiteness and Australia’s colonial histories; celebrity labour; and methodologies for celebrity studies. This timely collection urges scholars of celebrity to attend further both to the gendered nature of celebrity culture and to local conditions of production and consumption. This book will be of key interest to researchers and graduate students in cultural studies, television and film studies, digital media studies, critical race and whiteness studies, gender and sexuality studies, and literary studies.

Popular eBooks

Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster

Lights, Camera, Feminism?

The New Feminist Literary Studies

You may also like...