The Post-feminist Hollywood Actress
Title | The Post-feminist Hollywood Actress PDF eBook |
Author | Kerry Segrave |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Christie, Julie: Dunaway, Fay: Streisand, Barbra: Minnelli, Liza: Farrow, Mia.
American Postfeminist Cinema
Title | American Postfeminist Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Michele Schreiber |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2014-03-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0748693378 |
In light of their tremendous gains in the political and professional sphere, and their ever expanding options, why is it that most contemporary American films aimed at women still focus almost exclusively on their pursuit of a heterosexual romantic relationship? American Postfeminist Cinema explores this question and is the first book to examine the symbiotic relationship between heterosexual romance and postfeminist culture. The book argues that since 1980, postfeminism's most salient tensions and anxieties have been reflected and negotiated in the American romance film. Case studies of a broad range of Hollywood and independent films reveal how the postfeminist romance cycle is intertwined with contemporary women's ambivalence and broader cultural anxieties about women's changing social and political status.
What a Girl Wants?
Title | What a Girl Wants? PDF eBook |
Author | Diane Negra |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 393 |
Release | 2009-06-02 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1135253412 |
From domestic goddess to desperate housewife, What a Girl Wants? explores the importance and centrality of postfeminism in contemporary popular culture. Focusing on a diverse range of media forms, including film, TV, advertising and journalism, Diane Negra holds up a mirror to the contemporary female subject who finds herself centralized in commodity culture to a largely unprecedented degree at a time when Hollywood romantic comedies, chick-lit, and female-centred primetime TV dramas all compete for her attention and spending power. The models and anti-role models analyzed in the book include the chick flick heroines of princess films, makeover movies and time travel dramas, celebrity brides and bravura mothers, ‘Runaway Bride’ sensation Jennifer Wilbanks, the sex workers, flight attendants and nannies who maintain such a high profile in postfeminist popular culture, the authors of postfeminist panic literature on dating, marriage and motherhood and the domestic gurus who propound luxury lifestyling as a showcase for the ‘achieved’ female self.
Interrogating Postfeminism
Title | Interrogating Postfeminism PDF eBook |
Author | Yvonne Tasker |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2007-11-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780822340324 |
DIVFeminist essays examining postfeminism in American and British popular culture./div
Postfeminist Celebrity and Motherhood
Title | Postfeminist Celebrity and Motherhood PDF eBook |
Author | Jorie Lagerwey |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2016-09-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317265718 |
This book analyzes the intersections of celebrity, self-branding, and "mommy" culture. It examines how images of celebrity moms playing versions of themselves on reality television, social media, gossip sites, and self-branded retail outlets negotiate the complex demands of postfeminism and the current fashion for heroic, labor intensive parenting. The cultural regime of "new momism" insists that women be expert in both affective and economic labor, producing loving families, self-brands based on emotional connections with consumers, and lucrative saleable commodities. Successfully creating all three: a self-brand, a style of motherhood, and lucrative product sales, is represented as the only path to fulfilled adult womanhood and citizenship. The book interrogates the classed and racialized privilege inherent in those success stories and looks for ways that the versions of branded motherhood represented as failures might open a space for a more inclusive emergent feminism.
Young Women, Girls and Postfeminism in Contemporary British Film
Title | Young Women, Girls and Postfeminism in Contemporary British Film PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Hill |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2020-09-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1350120316 |
In the 21st century, films about the lives and experiences of girls and young women have become increasingly visible. Yet, British cinema's engagement with contemporary girlhood has - unlike its Hollywood counterpart - been largely ignored until now. Sarah Hill's Young Women, Girls and Postfeminism in Contemporary British Film provides the first book-length study of how young femininity has been constructed, both in films like the St. Trinians franchise and by critically acclaimed directors like Andrea Arnold, Carol Morley and Lone Scherfig. Hill offers new ways to understand how postfeminism informs British cinema and how it is adapted to fit its specific geographical context. By interrogating UK cinema through this lens, Hill paints a diverse and distinctive portrait of modern femininity and consolidates the important academic links between film, feminist media and girlhood studies.
Nobody's Girl Friday
Title | Nobody's Girl Friday PDF eBook |
Author | J. E. Smyth |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 019084082X |
This book on the history of Hollywood's high-flying career women during the studio era covers the impact of the executives, producers, editors, writers, agents, designers, directors, and actresses who shaped Hollywood film production and style, led their unions, climbed to the top during the war, and fought the blacklist.