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1 online resource (ix, 221 pages) : illustrations |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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Edinburgh scholarship online |
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Edinburgh scholarship online.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-209), filmography (pages 210-214) , and index. |
| Contents |
The world is her oyster: negotiating contemporary white womanhood in Hollywood's tourist spaces -- 'Hoist the colours!' Framing feminism through charismatic white leadership in the fantasy blockbuster -- Neoliberalism, female agency and conspicuous consumption as tragic flaw in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine -- Paranoid attachments to suburban dreams: pathological feminitity in Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train -- Aristocratic whiteness, body trauma and the market logic of melancholia in Black Swan -- Sofia Coppola's melancholic aesthetic: vanishing femininity in an object-oriented world. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Feminism and motion pictures.
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Women, White, in motion pictures.
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Melancholy in motion pictures.
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Race relations in motion pictures.
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Féminisme et cinéma.
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Mélancolie au cinéma.
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Relations raciales au cinéma.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
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Melancholy in motion pictures
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Feminism and motion pictures
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Race relations in motion pictures
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Women, White, in motion pictures
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Marston, Kendra. Postfeminist whiteness. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018] 1474430295 (DLC) 2018288897 (OCoLC)1022080506 |
| ISBN |
9781474430319 (webready pdf) |
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1474430317 (webready pdf) |
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9781474430326 (epub) |
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1474430325 (epub) |
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1474453600 |
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9781474453608 |
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9781474430296 (hardback) |
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1474430295 (hardback) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000063918664 |
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AU@ 000067039217 |
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AU@ 000069441630 |
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UKMGB 019014255 |
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