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HBO's Girls and the awkward politics of gender, race, and privilege / edited by Elwood Watson, Jennifer Mitchell and Marc Edward Shaw ; contributors, Jocelyn L. Bailey [and seven others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bailey, Joycelyn, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Girls (Television program).
- Girls--Psychology.
- Girls.
- Girls--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (211 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2017.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, 2017.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book studies the HBO program Girls from multiple perspectives by comparing the series to similar programs from decades past as well as to the show's contemporaries in the present. By examining the show through the lenses of gender, race, sexuality, and culture. This book synthesizes and analyzes many of the most pressing issues that have surfaced in a show that has firmly etched itself in the fabric of early twenty-first century popular culture.
- Contents:
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction
- 1 She's Just Not That Into You: Dating, Damage, and Gender
- 2 "The Body Police": Lena Dunham, Susan Bordo, and HBO's Girls
- 3 Owning Her Abjection: Lena Dunham's Feminist Politics of Embodiment
- 4 Girls' Issues: The Feminist Politics of Girls's Celebration of the 'Trivial'
- 5 Falling from Pedestals: Dunham's Cracked Girls and Boys
- 6 Capitalizing on Post-Hipster Cool: The Music That Makes Girls
- 7 Generation X Archetypes in HBO's Girls
- 8 Reading Girls: Diegesis and Distinction
- 9 Lena Dunham: The Awkward/Ambiguous Politics of White Millennial Feminism
- 10 Marnye on the Ones and Twos: Appropriating Race, Criticizing Class in Girls
- Acknowledgments
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Contributors.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-191) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-9787-4131-6
- 979-82-16-28364-5
- 1-4985-1262-3
- OCLC:
- 936069080
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