Kendra Marston

Postfeminist Whiteness

Problematising Melancholic Burden in Contemporary Hollywood

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Produktbeschreibung

Kendra Marston interrogates representations of melancholic white femininity in contemporary Hollywood cinema, arguing that the 'melancholic white woman' serves as a vehicle through which to explore the excesses of late capitalism and a crisis of faith in the American dream.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 154mm x 233mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9781474430302
• ISBN-10: 1474430309
• Artikelnr.: 48164773

Autorenporträt

Kendra Marston completed her PhD in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her research interests include critical race and whiteness studies, postfeminist media studies, Hollywood cinema, stardom and celebrity and costume and cinema. She has published in Cinema Journal, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Film, Fashion & Consumption.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction
Chapter One: The World is Her Oyster: Negotiating Contemporary White Womanhood in Hollywood's Tourist Spaces
Chapter Two: "Hoist the Colours!" Framing Feminism through Charismatic White Leadership in the Fantasy Blockbuster
Chapter Three: Neoliberalism, Female Agency, and Conspicuous Consumption as Tragic Flaw in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine
Chapter Four: Paranoid Attachments to Suburban Dreams: Pathological Femininity in Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train
Chapter Five: Aristocratic Whiteness, Body Trauma, and the Market Logic of Melancholia in Black Swan
Chapter Six: Sofia Coppola's Melancholic Aesthetic: Vanishing Femininity in an Object-Oriented World
Conclusion
Bibliography
Filmography