Gender & Media

The Space of Sex

The Porn Aesthetic in Contemporary Film and Television Shelton Waldrep, University of Southern Maine, USA As film and television become ever more focused on the pornographic gaze of the camera, the human body undergoes a metamorphosis, becoming both landscape and building, part of an architectonic design in which the erotics of the body spread beyond the body itself to influence the design of the film or televisual shot. Waldrep focuses on how sex, gender, and sexuality are represented in several recent films, including Savages (2012), Magic Mike (2012), and Don Jon (2013). Each of these mainstream or independent movies, and several more, are examined for the ways they have attempted to absorb pornography, if not the pornography industry specifically, into their plot.

UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 320 pages • 50 bw illus HB 9781501333057 • £102.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781501333064 • £95.81 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501333088 • £95.81 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Gender in Post-9/11 American Apocalyptic TV

Representations of Masculinity and Femininity at the End of the World Eve Bennett, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France Gender in Post-9/11 American Apocalyptic TV is an investigation of gender in the many American science fiction, fantasy and horror TV series dealing with the theme of apocalypse that debuted in the post-9/11 period. It takes a broadly cultural studies approach, combining close textual analysis with clearly introduced theoretical concepts and discussion of socio-political contextual factors.

Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image

Contexts and Practices Edited by Lucy Reynolds, University of Westminster, UK

"Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image offers up a fascinating addition to theories that inform feminist film criticism as it applies to video art. Laura Mulvey, the éminence grise of feminist film studies, provides a preface, and for the collection itself Reynolds brought together essays, interviews, and even a lengthy poem. The contributors are diverse as well, including scholars, film curators, journalists, and artists. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." CHOICE

UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 312 pages • 16 colour and 34 b&w illus PB 9781350203112 • £27.99 / $37.95 Previously published in HB 9781784537005 ePub 9781350113282 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350113299 • £76.50 / $94.85

Bloomsbury Academic

UK July 2020 • US July 2020 • 232 pages • 28 bw illus PB 9781501366536 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501331084 ePub 9781501331107 • £29.22 / $35.95 ePdf 9781501331091 • £29.22 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic

Gender and Media in the Broadcast Age

Women’s Radio Programming at the BBC, CBC, and ABC Justine Lloyd, Macquarie University, Australia Demonstrates how women as media producers and audiences in three countries with public service broadcasters (UK, Canada and Australia) have contributed to changes in our understandings of public and private. Women’s participation in media continues to be a key challenge to notions of the public sphere and the book concludes that profound changes initiated in the broadcast era are unfinished in the age of digital media. Justine Lloyd offers rich and valuable evidence of the dynamic relationship between media texts, producers and audiences that is relevant to contemporary debates about a growing gender ‘apartheid’ in a mediated culture.

UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 208 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781501318771 • £24.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501318764 ePub 9781501318788 • £81.19 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501318795 • £81.19 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic

"Guilty Pleasures"

European Audiences and Contemporary Hollywood Romantic Comedy Alice Guilluy, London Film Academy, UK Alice Guilluy examines the reception of contemporary Hollywood romantic comedy in Britain, France and Germany. She offers a new look at the romantic comedy genre through a qualitative study of its consumption by actual audiences, focusing on Sweet Home Alabama (2002, dir. Andy Tennant). In doing so, she attempts to challenge traditional critiques of the genre as trite “escapism” at best, and dangerous “guilty pleasure” at worst. This book makes a valuable contribution to scholarly debates on gender representation in the contemporary romantic comedy, and brings a fresh approach to genre studies through its focus on audience research.

UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350163034 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350163058 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350163041 • £76.50 / $94.85

Screening Queer Memory

LGBTQ Pasts in Contemporary Film and Television Anamarija Horvat, University of Edinburgh, UK In Screening Queer Memory, Anamarija Horvat examines how LGBTQ history has been represented on-screen, and interrogates the specificity of queer memory. She poses several questions: How are the pasts of LGBTQ people and communities visualised and commemorated on screen? How do these representations comment on the influence of film and television on the construction of queer memory? How do they present the passage of memory from one generation of LGBTQ people to another? Finally, which narratives of the queer past, particularly of the activist past, are being commemorated, and which obscured? PB 9781350188402 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781350187658 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9781350187665 • £76.50 / $94.85

The Gypsy Woman

Representations in Literature and Visual Culture Jodie Matthews, University of Huddersfield, UK The exotic and dangerous stereotype of the Gypsy woman formed in 19th-century literature and visual culture remains alive today. In The Gypsy Woman, Jodie Matthews analyses why the representation of female Gypsy figures in print, painting, television series such matters so much. Some of these images have been so damaging that they require legal regulation, but Matthews claims that supposedly positive portrayals are just as detrimental by reiterating the same story about Gypsies that have been told since the 19th century. Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic

Are You Not Entertained?

Mapping the Gladiator Across Visual Media Lindsay Steenberg Lindsay Steenberg draws on a wide array of examples across visual media, from films such as Ridley Scott’s Gladiator and the Hunger Games franchise, to television programmes such as Spartacus and Bromans and to the videogames that inspired multi-media franchises such as Mortal Kombat. She highlights the measurable shifts in gladiatorial mythology that took place at the turn of the millennium, tracing these trends backward to the midcentury Italian sword and sandal film and forwards towards the digital violence of ludic films such as Gamer and its low-budget counterpart, Arena.

UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 320 pages ePub 9781350120082 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350120068 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic

UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 240 pages • 20 bw illus ePub 9781350187672 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic

as Big Fat Gypsy Weddings and social media sites like Instagram HB 9781350120075 • £85.00 / $115.00

UK February 2020 • US February 2020 • 272 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781350150669 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781788313810 ePub 9781786724847 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781786734846 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic

Steampunk

Gender, Subculture and the NeoVictorian Claire Nally, Northumbria University, UK

"Nally convincingly demonstrates that we need to attend to the particulars of how steampunk is created, received, and even contested, whether in the form of Alan Moore's graphic novels, the multi-genre persona created by Emilie Autumn, or "postfeminist" romance. Her boundary-crossing study thus challenges us to rethink our generalizations about steampunk's joy in anachronism and its fascination with Britain's lost empire." Miriam Elizabeth Burstein, Professor of English, State University of New York, College at Brockport, USA

In Steampunk, Nally asks: why are steampunks fascinated by our Victorian heritage, and what strategies do they use to reinvent history in the present?

UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 304 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350194502 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350113183 ePub 9781350113190 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350113206 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic