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Pop & Postfeminism - Female Dandyism In Popular Music

by Nathalie (University Of Surrey, Uk) Weidhase

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 The first book to conceptualise the female dandy, which is presented as a figure that simultaneously embodies and ruptures postfeminist notions of femininity.
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Gender And Genre In 1990s Hollywood - Challenging Definitions Of Sex, Women, And Femininity

by Patricia Di (Monash University, Australia) Risio

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 An exploration of unconventional female protagonists in 1990s Hollywood films, and how they had a lasting impact on traditionally male oriented genre cinema.
Bad Sex - Sexuality, Gender And Affect In Contemporary Tv

by Aura Lehtonen, Billy Holzberg e Jacqueline Gibbs

~~29,80€~~ 26,82€ 10% OFF

 Bad Sex traces the evolution of representations of sex on screen, from earlier portrayals of sex as glamorous or taboo, to more complex depictions of often awkward or painful experiences and feelings. Jacqueline Gibbs, Billy Holzberg, and Aura Lehtonen examine the representation of sex and sexuality in contemporary English language drama and ''dramedy'' shows like Fleabag (2016, 2019), Sex Education (2019-23), I May Destroy You (2020) and Euphoria (2019-), arguing that TV is where the politics of sexuality and gender is negotiated under the contemporary conditions of neoliberalism. Through a cultural analysis of key television shows, they identify this shift as driven by the diversification of representations of sex and sexuality, as women, trans and non-binary, Black and minority ethnic, working-class and disabled TV professionals carve some space in a traditionally white, middle-class, cis male dominated industry. In doing so, they explore the affective potential and limits of ''bad'' sex on our screens and what these representations can tell us about sexual politics and gender cultures today.
Bad Sex - Sexuality, Gender And Affect In Contemporary Tv

by Aura Lehtonen, Billy Holzberg e Jacqueline Gibbs

~~29,80€~~ 26,82€ 10% OFF

 Bad Sex traces the evolution of representations of sex on screen, from earlier portrayals of sex as glamorous or taboo, to more complex depictions of often awkward or painful experiences and feelings. Jacqueline Gibbs, Billy Holzberg, and Aura Lehtonen examine the representation of sex and sexuality in contemporary English language drama and ''dramedy'' shows like Fleabag (2016, 2019), Sex Education (2019-23), I May Destroy You (2020) and Euphoria (2019-), arguing that TV is where the politics of sexuality and gender is negotiated under the contemporary conditions of neoliberalism. Through a cultural analysis of key television shows, they identify this shift as driven by the diversification of representations of sex and sexuality, as women, trans and non-binary, Black and minority ethnic, working-class and disabled TV professionals carve some space in a traditionally white, middle-class, cis male dominated industry. In doing so, they explore the affective potential and limits of ''bad'' sex on our screens and what these representations can tell us about sexual politics and gender cultures today.
Love Wars - Television Romantic Comedy

by Mary Irwin

~~101,36€~~ 91,22€ 10% OFF

 The first overview of romantic comedy on the small screen.
Love Wars - Television Romantic Comedy

by Mary Irwin

~~101,36€~~ 91,22€ 10% OFF

 The first overview of romantic comedy on the small screen.
Gender And Contemporary Television In Iberia And Latin America - Identities And Social Change

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 This transnational study explores gender and sexuality in television programming from across Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula.
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Gender And Genre In 1990s Hollywood - Challenging Definitions Of Sex, Women, And Femininity

by Patricia Di Risio

~~34,57€~~ 31,11€ 10% OFF

 The 1990s was a decade of significant turmoil in Hollywood cinema, which resulted in a watershed moment in the interplay of gender and genre. Patricia Di Risio argues that cinematic representations of unconventional women had an important effect on traditionally male oriented genres, such as the crime thriller, road movie, western, film noir, war film, sci-fi, and horror. Di Risio analyses seven key films from the decade, including Blue Steel (1990), Thelma & Louise (1991), The Quick and the Dead (1995), Bound (1996), Jackie Brown (1997), G.I. Jane (1997) and Alien: Resurrection (1997), paying particular attention to their use of irony, allusion, and pastiche. She highlights how their female protagonists, a majority of whom are decidedly queer or gender questioning personas, produce an intense crossover in genre conventions, largely driven by their gender rebellion. She examines how a deconstruction of gender simultaneously allows genre hybridity and intertextuality, taking these films into unexpected new directions. In doing so, she delineates a clear line between the unconventional nature of the representation of the female protagonists and innovative changes to genre filmmaking practices.
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Gender And Genre In 1990s Hollywood - Challenging Definitions Of Sex, Women, And Femininity

by Patricia Di Risio

~~34,57€~~ 31,11€ 10% OFF

 The 1990s was a decade of significant turmoil in Hollywood cinema, which resulted in a watershed moment in the interplay of gender and genre. Patricia Di Risio argues that cinematic representations of unconventional women had an important effect on traditionally male oriented genres, such as the crime thriller, road movie, western, film noir, war film, sci-fi, and horror. Di Risio analyses seven key films from the decade, including Blue Steel (1990), Thelma & Louise (1991), The Quick and the Dead (1995), Bound (1996), Jackie Brown (1997), G.I. Jane (1997) and Alien: Resurrection (1997), paying particular attention to their use of irony, allusion, and pastiche. She highlights how their female protagonists, a majority of whom are decidedly queer or gender questioning personas, produce an intense crossover in genre conventions, largely driven by their gender rebellion. She examines how a deconstruction of gender simultaneously allows genre hybridity and intertextuality, taking these films into unexpected new directions. In doing so, she delineates a clear line between the unconventional nature of the representation of the female protagonists and innovative changes to genre filmmaking practices.
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Pop & Postfeminism - Female Dandyism In Popular Music

by Nathalie Weidhase

~~34,57€~~ 31,11€ 10% OFF

 The first book to conceptualise the female dandy, which is presented as a figure that simultaneously embodies and ruptures postfeminist notions of femininity.
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Pop & Postfeminism - Female Dandyism In Popular Music

by Nathalie Weidhase

~~34,57€~~ 31,11€ 10% OFF

 The first book to conceptualise the female dandy, which is presented as a figure that simultaneously embodies and ruptures postfeminist notions of femininity.
ENGLISH

Gay Conversion Practices In Memoir, Film And Fiction - Stories Of Repentance And Defiance

~~34,57€~~ 31,11€ 10% OFF

 For over half a century, organizations and individuals promoting ex-gay, conversion and/ or reparative therapy have pushed the tenet that a person may be able to, and should, alter their sexual orientation. Their so-called treatments or therapies have taken various forms over the decades, ranging from medical (including psychiatric or psychological) rehabilitation approaches, to counselling, and religious healing. Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction provides an in-depth exploration of the disturbing phenomenon of gay conversion ''therapy'' and its fictional and autobiographical representations across a broad range of films and books such as But I''m a Cheerleader! (1999), This is What Love in Action Looks Like (2011) and Boy Erased (2018). In doing so, the volume emphasizes the powerful role the arts and media play in communicating stories around conversion practices. Approaching the timely and urgent subject from an interdisciplinary perspective, contributors utilize film theory, queer theory, literary theory, mental health and social movement theory to discuss the medicalization and pathologizing of queer people, the power of institutions ranging from church, psychiatry and family (sometimes in alliance), and the real and fictional voices of survivors.
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Gay Conversion Practices In Memoir, Film And Fiction - Stories Of Repentance And Defiance

~~34,57€~~ 31,11€ 10% OFF

 For over half a century, organizations and individuals promoting ex-gay, conversion and/ or reparative therapy have pushed the tenet that a person may be able to, and should, alter their sexual orientation. Their so-called treatments or therapies have taken various forms over the decades, ranging from medical (including psychiatric or psychological) rehabilitation approaches, to counselling, and religious healing. Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction provides an in-depth exploration of the disturbing phenomenon of gay conversion ''therapy'' and its fictional and autobiographical representations across a broad range of films and books such as But I''m a Cheerleader! (1999), This is What Love in Action Looks Like (2011) and Boy Erased (2018). In doing so, the volume emphasizes the powerful role the arts and media play in communicating stories around conversion practices. Approaching the timely and urgent subject from an interdisciplinary perspective, contributors utilize film theory, queer theory, literary theory, mental health and social movement theory to discuss the medicalization and pathologizing of queer people, the power of institutions ranging from church, psychiatry and family (sometimes in alliance), and the real and fictional voices of survivors.
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Stand-Up Comedy And Contemporary Feminisms - Sexism, Stereotypes And Structural Inequalities

by Ellie (Birmingham City University, Uk) Tomsett

~~39,19€~~ 35,27€ 10% OFF

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 An in-depth exploration of the ways in which the contemporary live UK comedy industry simultaneously encourages and resists the inclusion of women
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Pop & Postfeminism - Female Dandyism In Popular Music

by Nathalie (University Of Surrey, Uk) Weidhase

~~114,91€~~ 103,42€ 10% OFF

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 The first book to conceptualise the female dandy, which is presented as a figure that simultaneously embodies and ruptures postfeminist notions of femininity.
ENGLISH

Female Heroes In Young Adult Fantasy Fiction - Reframing Myths Of Adolescent Girlhood

by Leah (Plymouth Marjon University, Uk) Phillips

~~40,55€~~ 36,50€ 10% OFF

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 An in depth exploration of how YA fantasy's female heroes intervene in the narrow and limiting standards of the archetypal hero (those which are modelled by 'normal' adolescence) in order to open avenues for being to those conventionally excluded.
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Globalized Queerness - Identities And Commodities In Queer Popular Culture

by Helton Levy

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 Has a global queer popular culture emerged at the expense of local queer artists? In this book, Helton Levy argues that global queer culture is indebted to specific, local references that artists carry from their early experiences in life, which then become homogenized by contemporary media markets. The assumption that queer publics live and consume only through a global set of references, including gay parades and rainbow flags, for example, erases many personal complexities. Levy revisits media characters that have caught the attention of the broader public - such as Calamity Jane (1953), the Daffyd Thomas character from the BBC comedy Little Britain (2003-2007), Brazilian drag queen Pabblo Vittar, French singer Christine and the Queens, and the Italian-Egyptian rapper Mahmood - and argues that they have gradually blended in the public''s perception. This has often obscured the individual struggles faced by these characters, such as immigration, homophobia, poverty and societal exclusion. Levy also questions what happens when global media flows take queer culture to regions wherein the notion of LGBTQ+ rights are not entirely acceptable. Utilizing insights from media reports published across the world''s ten biggest media markets, Levy argues that there are a series of conditions which artists and cultural actors negotiate once they achieve any kind of success in mainstream media, while local queer references remain unseen in the wider media world. For that reason, he argues for stronger incentives for communities to accept and acknowledge the work of queer people before and after commoditization.
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Globalized Queerness - Identities And Commodities In Queer Popular Culture

by Helton Levy

34,57€ + 10% CARD

 Has a global queer popular culture emerged at the expense of local queer artists? In this book, Helton Levy argues that global queer culture is indebted to specific, local references that artists carry from their early experiences in life, which then become homogenized by contemporary media markets. The assumption that queer publics live and consume only through a global set of references, including gay parades and rainbow flags, for example, erases many personal complexities. Levy revisits media characters that have caught the attention of the broader public - such as Calamity Jane (1953), the Daffyd Thomas character from the BBC comedy Little Britain (2003-2007), Brazilian drag queen Pabblo Vittar, French singer Christine and the Queens, and the Italian-Egyptian rapper Mahmood - and argues that they have gradually blended in the public''s perception. This has often obscured the individual struggles faced by these characters, such as immigration, homophobia, poverty and societal exclusion. Levy also questions what happens when global media flows take queer culture to regions wherein the notion of LGBTQ+ rights are not entirely acceptable. Utilizing insights from media reports published across the world''s ten biggest media markets, Levy argues that there are a series of conditions which artists and cultural actors negotiate once they achieve any kind of success in mainstream media, while local queer references remain unseen in the wider media world. For that reason, he argues for stronger incentives for communities to accept and acknowledge the work of queer people before and after commoditization.
ENGLISH

Stand-Up Comedy And Contemporary Feminisms - Sexism, Stereotypes And Structural Inequalities

by Ellie Tomsett

34,57€ + 10% CARD

 An in-depth exploration of the ways in which the contemporary live UK comedy industry simultaneously encourages and resists the inclusion of women
ENGLISH

Stand-Up Comedy And Contemporary Feminisms - Sexism, Stereotypes And Structural Inequalities

by Ellie Tomsett

34,57€ + 10% CARD

 An in-depth exploration of the ways in which the contemporary live UK comedy industry simultaneously encourages and resists the inclusion of women
ENGLISH

Stand-Up Comedy And Contemporary Feminisms - Sexism, Stereotypes And Structural Inequalities

by Ellie (Birmingham City University, Uk) Tomsett

121,67€ + 10% CARD

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 An in-depth exploration of the ways in which the contemporary live UK comedy industry simultaneously encourages and resists the inclusion of women
ENGLISH

Female Heroes In Young Adult Fantasy Fiction - Reframing Myths Of Adolescent Girlhood

by Leah Phillips

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 An in depth exploration of how YA fantasy's female heroes intervene in the narrow and limiting standards of the archetypal hero (those which are modelled by 'normal' adolescence) in order to open avenues for being to those conventionally excluded.
ENGLISH

Female Heroes In Young Adult Fantasy Fiction - Reframing Myths Of Adolescent Girlhood

by Leah Phillips

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 An in depth exploration of how YA fantasy's female heroes intervene in the narrow and limiting standards of the archetypal hero (those which are modelled by 'normal' adolescence) in order to open avenues for being to those conventionally excluded.
ENGLISH

Female Heroes In Young Adult Fantasy Fiction - Reframing Myths Of Adolescent Girlhood

by Leah (Plymouth Marjon University, Uk) Phillips

121,67€ + 10% CARD

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 An in depth exploration of how YA fantasy's female heroes intervene in the narrow and limiting standards of the archetypal hero (those which are modelled by 'normal' adolescence) in order to open avenues for being to those conventionally excluded.
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