An Intergenerational Feminist Media Studies: Conflicts and Connectivities

ISBN-13: 9780367519131 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 188 str.

Jessalynn Keller; Jo Littler; Alison Winch

Opis

This book emphasizes exploring the ways in which the category of generation is mobilized to gloss sexism, racism, ageism, class oppression, and the effects of neoliberalism. It examines a range of media forms, and practices of media production, intervention, and representation. It was first published as a special issue of Feminist Media Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Why "intergenerational feminist media studies"?  1. Pretty past it? Interrogating the post-feminist makeover of ageing, style, and fashion  2. Handover women: Hong Kong women filmmakers and the intergenerational melodrama of infidelity  3. Post-postfeminism?: new feminist visibilities in postfeminist times  4. "Older-wiser-lesbians" and "baby-dykes": mediating age and generation in New Queer Cinema  5. Growing pains: feminisms and intergenerationality in digital games  6. In the silences of a newsroom: age, generation, and sexism in the Indian television newsroom  7. Fifty shades of fandom: the intergenerational permeability of Twilight fan culture  8. Bridges, ladders, sparks, and glue: celebrating and problematizing "girl-driven" intergenerational feminist activism  9. The rhetoric of the mistake in adult narratives of youth sexuality: the case of Amanda Todd  10. Intergenerational feminism and media: a roundtable

O autorze

Jessalynn Keller is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Media & Film at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is author of Girls’ Feminist Blogging in a Postfeminist Age (Routledge 2015) and co-editor of Emergent Feminisms: Complicating a Postfeminist Media Culture (Routledge 2018). Her research on feminist digital cultures, girls’ media, and celebrity has been published in Feminist Media Studies, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Information, Communication & Society, and the Journal of Gender Studies, as well as in several edited collections.

Jo Littler is the author of Against Meritocracy: Culture, Power and Myths of Mobility (2017) and Radical Consumption? Shopping for Change in Contemporary Culture (2008). She is editor of The Politics of Heritage: The Legacies of ‘Race’ (with Roshi Naidoo, 2005) and Cultural Studies and Anti-Consumerism (with Sam Binkley, 2011).

Alison Winch is the author of Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood (2013). She is currently co-authoring a book with the title The New Patriarchs of Silicon Valley: Power, Celebrity and Digital Culture.