Hipster Culture

Heike Steinhoff is Junior Professor of American Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. She is the author of Transforming Bodies: Makeovers and Monstrosities in American Culture (2015) and Queer Buccaneers: (De)Constructing Boundaries in the Pirates of the Caribbean Film Series (2011). She has also published articles on representations of the body, gender, sexuality, and space in American literature and film.

This collection embraces a true cultural studies approach to the figure of the hipster. Covering everything from foodways to fashion, the collection situates the hipster’s unique place in American subculture, while simultaneously placing the hipster in larger global contexts. Of note is the collection’s intersectional approach to the topic, exploring the hipster from a number of gendered, sexual, and religious perspectives, expanding the uses of this collection to broader studies of identity, consumption, and consumerism.

• AcknowledgementsList of Illustrations1. Hipster Culture: A DefinitionHeike Steinhoff (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)Part I: Hipster Places, Identities and Transformations2. (Re-)Dressing the Naked City: Hipsters, Urban Creative Culture, and Gentrification in New York CityAnnabel Friredrichs (Leibniz University, Germany) and Florian Groß (Leibniz University, Germany)3. Glocal Hispsterification: Hipster-Led Gentrification in New York's, New Delhi's and Johannesburg's Cultural Time ZonesMelissa Tandiwe Myambo (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)4. Hipsters in Central and Eastern Europe: FromDomesticated Nostalgia to Manele and ProtestsGeorge Alexandru Condrache (University of Western Ontario, Canada)5. Pastiching the Pastoral: Hipster Farmers and the Commodification of American AgricultureKatje Armentrout (Purdue University, USA)Part II: Hipster Fashion, Porn, and Body Politics6. Hipster (Anti-)FashionCatharina Rüß (TU Dortmund University, Germany)7. The Irony of Hipster BeardsChristopher Oldstone-Moore (Wright State University, USA)8. The Politics of Hipster Porn/ographyAlexandra Hauke (University of Vienna, Austria) and Philip Jacobi (University of Passau, Germany)Part III: Hipster Literature and Self-Fashioning9. Twenty-First Century Hipster Fiction and Postindustrial RevitalizationBrandon McFarlane (Sheridan College, Canada)10. Choosing Marginality: White Entitlement in Dave Eggers' Hipster FictionStephanie Li (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)11. The Line, the Niche, and the Bathrobe: The White Male Writer as a Hipster TropeKatharina Scholz (Journalist, Germany/Ireland)12. "The Straight Queer": Hipster Appropriation in the Work of James FrancoBen Robbins (University of Innsbruck, Austria)Part IV: Hipster Media, Aesthetics and Identity Politics13. The Female Hipster in Girls and Frances Ha and the Potential of Emancipated SpectatorshipHeidi Liedke (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)14. “Fem the Future” of Hipness: Female Hipster Performers in Twenty-First Century Popular Music Lena Gotteswinter (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)15. Art Hipsters: Postmodern ProclamationsWes Hill (Southern Cross University, Australia)16. Hipster Post-Communities and Digital Nostalgia DesignMarek Jezinski (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland) and Lukasz Wojtkowski (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland)Part V: Hipster Foodways and Cultural Politics17. The Pursuit of Culinary Capital in Portlandia and Master of NoneJustine Gieni (University of Regina, Canada)18. Pabst Blue Ribbon: The Hipster Experiment with Critical Anti-Consumerism in Beer and Beyond Daniella Gáti (Brandeis University, USA)19. The Paradox of the Hungry Hipster: The Representation and Cultural Politics of Hipster FoodwaysKathleen LeBesco (Marymount Manhattan College, USA ) and Peter Naccarato (Marymount Manhattan College, USA)Part VI: Hipsters as Intersectional Identities 20. Mipsterz: Cultural Capital, Racialization, and the Emergence of Muslim CoolAnwar Ouassini (Delaware State University, USA ) and Mostafa Amini (Harvard Medical School, USA)21. Skinny Jeans in the Sanctuary: The Hipster Christian SubcultureCaroline Barnett (First Presbyterian Church of Auburn, USA)22. The Hipster Animal: Human-Animal Interactions in HipsterdomJayson Scott Grimes (Independent Scholar, Germany)Index