Brenda R. Weber

Latter-Day Screens

Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 688g
• ISBN-13: 9781478004264
• ISBN-10: 1478004266
• Artikelnr.: 54432334

Autorenporträt

Brenda R. Weber

Inhaltsangabe

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