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Postfeminist whiteness : problematising melancholic burden in contemporary Hollywood / Kendra Marston.
LIBRA PN1995.9.W6 M356 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marston, Kendra, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminism and motion pictures.
- Women, White, in motion pictures.
- Melancholy in motion pictures.
- Race in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 221 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- 1 The World Is Her Oyster: Negotiating Contemporary White Womanhood in Hollywood's Tourist Spaces p. 31
- 2 'Hoist the Colours!' Framing Feminism through Charismatic White Leadership in the Fantasy Blockbuster p. 58
- 3 Neoliberalism, Female Agency and Conspicuous Consumption as Tragic Flaw in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine p. 86
- 4 Paranoid Attachments to Suburban Dreams: Pathological Femininity in Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train p. 111
- 5 Aristocratic Whiteness, Body Trauma and the Market Logic of Melancholia in Black Swan p. 133
- 6 Sofia Coppola's Melancholic Aesthetic: Vanishing Femininity in an Object-oriented World p. 162.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-209), filmography (pages 210-214), and index.
- ISBN:
- 1474430295
- 9781474430296
- OCLC:
- 1022080506
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