Dana Schowalter, Shannon Stevens, Daniel L. Horvath

Gebundenes Buch

The Misogynistic Backlash Against Women-Strong Films

Beschreibung

This book is an exploration of the political struggle for visibility engendered by the growing number of women-centered popular films and a critical analysis of the intensifying misogynistic backlash that have accompanied such advances in the depiction of women on screen.

Autor

Dana Schowalter is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Western Oregon University. Her research interests include feminist media studies, feminist political economy, and global philanthropy. Her work has been published in Neoliberalism in the Media, Women and Language, and Communication Review. Shannon Stevens, Associate Professor of Journalism in the Department of English at California State University, Stanislaus, advises the student newspaper. A former journalist, she is a feminist rhetorician who researches media, popular culture, and policy. "The Rhetorical Significance of Gojira: Equipment for Living Through Trauma" appeared in The Atomic Bomb in Japanese Cinema: Critical Essays (2015). Daniel L. Horvath is a Part-Time Faculty in Communication Studies at California State University, Stanislaus. His research focuses on the way representation warps around critical categories of gender, race, class, etc. He published research on Michael Moore documentaries in Michael Moore and the Rhetoric of Documentary (2015) and on the rhetorical conditions of whistleblowing as a public act of parrhesia in Whistleblowing, Communication and Consequences (2021).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 487g
• ISBN-13: 9780367262013
• ISBN-10: 0367262010
• Artikelnr.: 62268350