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Steampunk
Gender, Subculture and the Neo-Victorian
Inbunden, 2019
1711 kr
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What is steampunk? Fashion craze, literary genre, lifestyle - or all of the above? Playing with the scientific innovations and aesthetics of the Victorian era, steampunk creatively warps history and presents an alternative future, imagined from a nineteenth-century perspective. In her …
Steampunk
Gender, Subculture and the Neo-Victorian
Av Claire Nally
E-bok, 2019
500 kr
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What is steampunk? Fashion craze, literary genre, lifestyle - or all of the above? Playing with the scientific innovations and aesthetics of the Victorian era, steampunk creatively warps history and presents an alternative future, imagined from a nineteenth-century perspective. In her …
Steampunk
Gender, Subculture and the Neo-Victorian
Av Claire Nally
E-bok, 2019
515 kr
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What is steampunk? Fashion craze, literary genre, lifestyle - or all of the above? Playing with the scientific innovations and aesthetics of the Victorian era, steampunk creatively warps history and presents an alternative future, imagined from a nineteenth-century perspective. In her …
Fat on Film
Gender, Race and Body Size in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
E-bok, 2020
530 kr
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Over the last two decades, fatness has become the focus of ubiquitous negative rhetoric, in the USA and beyond, presented under the cover of the medicalized ''''war against the obesity epidemic''''. In Fat on Film , Barbara Plotz provides a critical analysis of the cinematic representation of …
Fat on Film
Gender, Race and Body Size in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
Av Barbara Plotz, Claire Nally
Inbunden, 2020
1616 kr
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Over the last two decades, fatness has become the focus of ubiquitous negative rhetoric, in the USA and beyond, presented under the cover of the medicalized ‘‘war against the obesity epidemic’’. In Fat on Film, Barbara Plotz provides a critical analysis of the cinematic representation of fatness …
Fat on Film
Gender, Race and Body Size in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
E-bok, 2020
530 kr
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Over the last two decades, fatness has become the focus of ubiquitous negative rhetoric, in the USA and beyond, presented under the cover of the medicalized ''''war against the obesity epidemic''''. In Fat on Film , Barbara Plotz provides a critical analysis of the cinematic representation of …
Women Who Kill
Gender and Sexuality in Film and Series of the Post-Feminist Era
Av David Roche, Cristelle Maury
E-bok, 2020
500 kr
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Women Who Kill explores several lines of inquiry: the female murderer as a figure that destabilizes order; the tension between criminal and victim; the relationship between crime and expression (or the lack thereof); and the paradox whereby a crime can be both an act of destruction and a creative …
Women Who Kill
Gender and Sexuality in Film and Series of the Post-Feminist Era
Av David Roche, Cristelle Maury
E-bok, 2020
500 kr
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Women Who Kill explores several lines of inquiry: the female murderer as a figure that destabilizes order; the tension between criminal and victim; the relationship between crime and expression (or the lack thereof); and the paradox whereby a crime can be both an act of destruction and a creative …
Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies
Sex, Performance and Safe Femininity
E-bok, 2020
518 kr
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What makes a woman ''bad'' is commonly linked to certain ''qualities'' or behaviours seen as morally or socially corrosive, dirty and disgusting. In Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies , Gemma Commane critically explores the social, sexual and political significance of women who are labelled ''bad'', sluts or …
Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies
Sex, Performance and Safe Femininity
E-bok, 2020
530 kr
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What makes a woman ''bad'' is commonly linked to certain ''qualities'' or behaviours seen as morally or socially corrosive, dirty and disgusting. In Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies , Gemma Commane critically explores the social, sexual and political significance of women who are labelled ''bad'', sluts or …
Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction
Reframing Myths of Adolescent Girlhood
E-bok, 2023
458 kr
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The heroic romance is one of the West''s most enduring narratives, found everywhere, from religion and myth to blockbuster films and young adult literature. Within this story, adolescent girls are not, and cannot be, the heroes. They are, at best, the hero''s bride, a prize he wins for slaying …
Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction
Reframing Myths of Adolescent Girlhood
E-bok, 2023
458 kr
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The heroic romance is one of the West''s most enduring narratives, found everywhere, from religion and myth to blockbuster films and young adult literature. Within this story, adolescent girls are not, and cannot be, the heroes. They are, at best, the hero''s bride, a prize he wins for slaying …
Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction
Reframing Myths of Adolescent Girlhood
Av Leah Phillips, Claire Nally
Inbunden, 2023
1478 kr
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The heroic romance is one of the West’s most enduring narratives, found everywhere, from religion and myth to blockbuster films and young adult literature. Within this story, adolescent girls are not, and cannot be, the heroes. They are, at best, the hero’s bride, a prize he wins for slaying …
Are You Not Entertained?
Mapping the Gladiator Across Visual Media
E-bok, 2020
1820 kr
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Anglo-American culture is marked by a gladiatorial impulse: a deep cultural fascination in watching men fight each other. The gladiator is an archetypal character embodying this impulse and his brand of violent and eroticised masculinity has become a cultural shorthand that signals a …
Are You Not Entertained?
Mapping the Gladiator Across Visual Media
Inbunden, 2020
1555 kr
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Anglo-American culture is marked by a gladiatorial impulse: a deep cultural fascination in watching men fight each other. The gladiator is an archetypal character embodying this impulse and his brand of violent and eroticised masculinity has become a cultural shorthand that signals a …
Are You Not Entertained?
Mapping the Gladiator Across Visual Media
E-bok, 2020
1820 kr
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Anglo-American culture is marked by a gladiatorial impulse: a deep cultural fascination in watching men fight each other. The gladiator is an archetypal character embodying this impulse and his brand of violent and eroticised masculinity has become a cultural shorthand that signals a …
Love Wars
Television Romantic Comedy
Av Mary Irwin
E-bok, 2025
452 kr
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This is the first dedicated overview of the international television romantic comedy genre, Mary Irwin builds on the critical work on cinematic romantic comedy to offer a dedicated critical analysis of the romantic comedy on the small screen. Drawing on series from the 1960s to the present day, …
Love Wars
Television Romantic Comedy
Av Mary Irwin
E-bok, 2025
452 kr
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This is the first dedicated overview of the international television romantic comedy genre, Mary Irwin builds on the critical work on cinematic romantic comedy to offer a dedicated critical analysis of the romantic comedy on the small screen. Drawing on series from the 1960s to the present day, …
From the Margins to the Mainstream
Women in Film and Television
Av Marianne Kac-Vergne, Julie Assouly
E-bok, 2022
458 kr
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This book explores the various issues raised by women''s fraught integration into the mainstream in film and television, whether it be off screen as filmmakers and film critics or on screen in film and TV series. Marianne Kac-Vergne and Julie Assouly consider the varied representations of women in …
From the Margins to the Mainstream
Women in Film and Television
Av Marianne Kac-Vergne, Julie Assouly
E-bok, 2022
458 kr
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This book explores the various issues raised by women''s fraught integration into the mainstream in film and television, whether it be off screen as filmmakers and film critics or on screen in film and TV series. Marianne Kac-Vergne and Julie Assouly consider the varied representations of women in …
Young Women, Girls and Postfeminism in Contemporary British Film
Av Sarah Hill
E-bok, 2020
514 kr
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In the 21st century, films about the lives and experiences of girls and young women have become increasingly visible. Yet, British cinema''s engagement with contemporary girlhood has - unlike its Hollywood counterpart - been largely ignored until now. Sarah Hill''s Young Women, Girls and …
Young Women, Girls and Postfeminism in Contemporary British Film
Av Sarah Hill
E-bok, 2020
530 kr
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In the 21st century, films about the lives and experiences of girls and young women have become increasingly visible. Yet, British cinema''s engagement with contemporary girlhood has - unlike its Hollywood counterpart - been largely ignored until now. Sarah Hill''s Young Women, Girls and …
Fathers on Film
Paternity and Masculinity in 1990s Hollywood
E-bok, 2020
500 kr
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The father is an enduring and iconic figure in Hollywood cinema and in the 1990s, narratives of redemptive fatherhood featured prominently in some of the decade''s most popular films like Kindergarten Cop (1990), Mrs Doubtfire (1993), Jurassic Park (1993) and The Lion King (1994). Interpreting such …
Fathers on Film
Paternity and Masculinity in 1990s Hollywood
E-bok, 2020
515 kr
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The father is an enduring and iconic figure in Hollywood cinema and in the 1990s, narratives of redemptive fatherhood featured prominently in some of the decade''s most popular films like Kindergarten Cop (1990), Mrs Doubtfire (1993), Jurassic Park (1993) and The Lion King (1994). Interpreting such …
Fathers on Film
Paternity and Masculinity in 1990s Hollywood
Av Katie Barnett, Claire Nally
Inbunden, 2020
1569 kr
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The father is an enduring and iconic figure in Hollywood cinema and in the 1990s, narratives of redemptive fatherhood featured prominently in some of the decade’s most popular films like Kindergarten Cop (1990), Mrs Doubtfire (1993), Jurassic Park (1993) and The Lion King (1994). Interpreting such …
Ageing Femininity on Screen
The Older Woman in Contemporary Cinema
Inbunden, 2019
1214 kr
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What can queer theory, media studies and feminism bring to our understanding of cinema's Lavender Ladies? Addressing the groundswell of scholarly interest in age and its representation, Ageing Femininity on Film explores character tropes for old women in recent film. Alongside a proliferation of …
Gendered Motorcycle
Representations in Society, Media and Popular Culture
Av Esperanza Miyake, Claire Nally
Häftad, 2019
504 kr
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What happens to gender at 120mph? Are Harley-Davidsons more masculine than Yamahas? The Gendered Motorcycle answers such questions through a critical examination of motorcycles in film, advertising and television. Whilst bikers and biker cultures have been explored previously, the motorcycle itself …
Conflicting Masculinities
Men in Television Period Drama
Av Katherine Byrne, Julie Anne Taddeo m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
504 kr
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Never before has period drama offered viewers such an assortment of complex male characters, from transported felons and syphilitic detectives to shell shocked soldiers and gangland criminals. Neo-Victorian Gothic fictions like Penny Dreadful represent masculinity at its darkest, Poldark and …
Girls Like This, Boys Like That
The Reproduction of Gender in Contemporary Youth Cultures
Av Victoria Cann, Claire Nally
Häftad, 2019
405 kr
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What role does taste play in contemporary youth culture? How do young people reproduce, or alternatively, reject gender norms? Using new research and the work of renowned theorists such as Judith Butler and Pierre Bourdieu, Victoria Cann argues that popular culture affects young people's …
Gypsy Woman
Representations in Literature and Visual Culture
Av Jodie Matthews, Claire Nally
Häftad, 2020
490 kr
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The exotic and dangerous stereotype of the Gypsy woman formed in 19th-century literature and visual culture remains alive today. These contemporary cliches about Gypsy culture - both negative and romanticised - have a long history. In The Gypsy Woman, Jodie Matthews analyses why the representation …
