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.
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.
Acknowledgments ix Past as Prologue: Latter-day Screens and History 1 Introduction. "Well, We Are a Curiosity, Ain't We?": Mediated Mormonism 13 1. Mormonism as Meme and Analytic: Spiritual Neoliberalism, Image Management, and Transmediated Salvation 49 2. The Mormon Glow: The Raced and Gendered Implications of Spectacular Visibility 91 3. The Epistemology of the (Televised, Polygamous) Closet: The Cultural Politics of Mediated Mormonism and the Promises of the American Dream 120 4. Polygamy USA: Visability, Charismatic Evil, and Gender Progressivism 162 5. Gender Trouble in Happy Valley: Choice, Affect, and Mormon Feminist Housewives 201 6. "Pray (and Obey) the Gay Away": Conscience and the Queer Politics of Desire 241 Conclusion. Afterthoughts and Latter Days 276 Epilogue. Mormons on My Mind, or, Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Hegemony I Learned in Mesa, Arizona 284 Notes 309 References 329 Media Archive 345 Index 361
Acknowledgments ix Past as Prologue: Latter-day Screens and History 1 Introduction. "Well, We Are a Curiosity, Ain't We?": Mediated Mormonism 13 1. Mormonism as Meme and Analytic: Spiritual Neoliberalism, Image Management, and Transmediated Salvation 49 2. The Mormon Glow: The Raced and Gendered Implications of Spectacular Visibility 91 3. The Epistemology of the (Televised, Polygamous) Closet: The Cultural Politics of Mediated Mormonism and the Promises of the American Dream 120 4. Polygamy USA: Visability, Charismatic Evil, and Gender Progressivism 162 5. Gender Trouble in Happy Valley: Choice, Affect, and Mormon Feminist Housewives 201 6. "Pray (and Obey) the Gay Away": Conscience and the Queer Politics of Desire 241 Conclusion. Afterthoughts and Latter Days 276 Epilogue. Mormons on My Mind, or, Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Hegemony I Learned in Mesa, Arizona 284 Notes 309 References 329 Media Archive 345 Index 361
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