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Latter-day screens : gender, sexuality, and mediated Mormonism / Brenda R. Weber.
LIBRA BX8638 .W43 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weber, Brenda R., 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Latter Day Saint churches.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Latter Day Saints in mass media.
- Latter Day Saints in literature.
- Latter Day Saints in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- Brenda R. Weber examines how the mediation of Mormonism through film, TV, blogs, YouTube videos, and memoirs functions as a means to understand conversations surrounding gender, sexuality, spirituality, capitalism, justice, and individualism in the United States.
- Contents:
- 1 Mormonism as Meme and Analytic: Spiritual Neoliberalism, Image Management, and Transmediated Salvation p. 49
- 2 The Mormon Glow: The Raced and Gendered Implications of Spectacular Visibility p. 91
- 3 The Epistemology of the (Televised, Polygamous) Closet: The Cultural Politics of Mediated Mormonism and the Promises of the American Dream p. 120
- 4 Polygamy USA: Visibility, Charismatic Evil, and Gender Progressivism p. 162
- 5 Gender Trouble in Happy Valley: Choice, Happy Affect, and Mormon Feminist Housewives p. 201
- 6 "Pray (and Obey) the Gay Away": Conscience and the Queer Politics of Desire p. 241.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781478004264
- 1478004266
- 9781478004868
- 147800486X
- OCLC:
- 1057375093
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