Postfeminist Whiteness: Problematising Melancholic Burden in Contemporary Hollywood

ISBN-13: 9781474430296 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 232 str.

Kendra Marston

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction; Chapter One: The World is Her Oyster: Negotiating Contemporary White Womanhood in Hollywood’s Tourist Spaces; Chapter Two: “Hoist the Colours!” Framing Feminism through Charismatic White Leadership in the Fantasy Blockbuster; Chapter Three: Neoliberalism, Female Agency, and Conspicuous Consumption as Tragic Flaw in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine ; Chapter Four: Paranoid Attachments to Suburban Dreams: Pathological Femininity in Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train; Chapter Five: Aristocratic Whiteness, Body Trauma, and the Market Logic of Melancholia in Black Swan; Chapter Six: Sofia Coppola’s Melancholic Aesthetic: Vanishing Femininity in an Object-Oriented World; Conclusion; Bibliography; Filmography