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Women on screen : feminism and femininity in visual culture
Title:
Women on screen : feminism and femininity in visual culture
Author:
Waters, Melanie, 1979-
ISBN:
9780230229655
Publication Information:
Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Physical Description:
x, 243 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
1: Generations -- Nancy Meyers and Popular Feminism / K. Glitre -- 'I'm nothing like you!' Postfeminist generationalism and female stardom in the contemporary chick flick / S. Cobb -- Alias: quality television and the new woman professional / R. White -- The horrors of home: feminism and femininity in the suburban gothic / M. Waters -- 2: Sex and sexuality -- Bad girls in crisis: the new teenage femme fatale / K. Farrimond -- Butch Lesbians: televising female masculinity / H. Fenwick -- 'Challenging and alternative': screening queer girls on Channel 4 / M. Zeller-Jacques -- 3: Makeovers -- Under the knife: feminism and cosmetic surgery in contemporary culture / S. Genz -- Imperialist projections: manners, makeovers, and models of nationality / B.R. Weber -- Femininity repackaged: postfeminism and Ladette to Lady / A. Mith -- Performing postfeminist identities: gender, costume and transformation in teen cinema / S. Gilligan

4: Violence -- Return of the 'Angry Woman': authenticating female physical action in contemporary cinema / L. Purse -- Negotiating shifts in feminism: The 'Bad' girls of James Bond / L. Funnell -- A pathological romance: authority, expert knowledge and the postfeminist profiler / L. Steenberg -- 'A Caligula-like despot': matriarchal tyranny in The Sopranos / A. Gething.
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