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1 online resource (xiii, 370 pages) : illustrations |
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Print version record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-343) and index. |
| Contents |
Past as prologue. Latter-day screens and history -- Introduction. "Well, we are a curiosity, ain't we?": mediated Mormonism -- Mormonism as meme and analytic: spiritual neoliberalism, image management, and transmediated salvation -- The Mormon glow: the raced and gendered implications of spectacular visibility -- The epistemology of the (televised, polygamous) closet: the cultural politics of mediated Mormonism and the promises of the American Dream -- Polygamy USA: visibility, charismatic evil, and gender progressivism -- Gender trouble in happy valley: choice, happy affect, and the Mormon feminist housewives -- "Pray (and obey) the gay away": conscience and the queer politics of desire -- Conclusion: afterthoughts and latter days -- Epilogue. Mormons on my mind, or, everything I ever needed to know about hegemony I learned in Mesa, Arizona -- Notes -- References -- Media archive -- Index. |
| Summary |
Brenda R. Weber examines the ways in which the mediation of Mormonism through film, TV, blogs, YouTube videos, and memoirs functions as a means through which to understand conversations surrounding gender, sexuality, spirituality, capitalism, justice, and individualism in the United States. |
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Latter Day Saint churches.
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Latter Day Saints in mass media.
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Latter Day Saints in literature.
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Latter Day Saints in motion pictures.
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Église mormone.
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Mormonism.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Mormon Church
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Mormons in literature
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Mormons in mass media
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Mormons in motion pictures
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Weber, Brenda R., 1964- Latter-day screens. Durham : Duke University Press, 2019 9781478004264 9781478004868 (DLC) 2019943713 (OCoLC)1057375093 |
| ISBN |
9781478005292 |
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1478005297 |
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9781478090229 |
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1478090227 |
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9781478004264 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1478004266 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781478004868 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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147800486X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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AU@ 000066902766 |
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