F I L M & M E D I A – Race & Gender
Critical Race Theory and Jordan Peele's Get Out Kevin Wynter, Pomona College, USA
This book provides a concise introduction to critical race theory and shows how this theory can be used to interpret Jordan Peele’s Get Out. Its analysis of Get Out is organized into three sections – Sub/ urban Space, The Black Body, and The Sunken Place – illustrating how contemporary debates in critical race theory and approaches to the analysis of mainstream Hollywood cinema can illuminate each other. In this way, the book provides both an accessible reference guide to key terminology in critical race studies and film studies, while contributing new scholarship to both fields. UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 208 pages PB 9781501351297 • £15.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781501351280 • £60.00 / $75.00 ePub 9781501351303 • £14.61 / $17.95 ePdf 9781501351310 • £14.61 / $17.95 Series: Film Theory in Practice • Bloomsbury Academic
Wonder Woman
The Female Body and Popular Culture Joan Ormrod, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK This book explores how Wonder Woman’s body has changed over the years as her mission has shifted from being an ambassador for peace and love to the greatest warrior in the DC transmedia universe, as she's reflected increasing technological sophistication, globalisation and women’s changing roles and ambitions. UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 320 pages PB 9781350191648 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781788314114 ePub 9781786725813 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781786735812 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic
Library of Gender and Popular Culture Claire Nally, Northumbria University, UK and Angela Smith, University of Sunderland, UK
Gender and Early Television
"Guilty Pleasures"
Sarah Arnold, Maynooth University, Ireland
Alice Guilluy, London Film Academy, UK
Mapping Women’s Role in Emerging US and British Media, 1850-1950 Sarah Arnold traces women’s relationship to the new medium of television, arguing that women played a crucial role in its development both as producers and as audiences long before the ‘golden age’ of television in the 1950s. As keen consumers of media, women also helped promote television to the public by performing as ‘television girls’. Additionally, women worked as directors, producers, technical crew and announcers. Beginning with the emergence of media entertainment in the mid-19th century and culminating in the rise of the post-war television industries, the author shows that, all along the way, women had a stake in television.
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 HB 9781780769769 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781786726100 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781786736161 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic
UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350163034 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350163058 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350163041 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic
Fat on Film
Fathers on Film
Barbara Plotz, London College of Communication, UAL, UK
Katie Barnett, University of Chester, UK
Gender, Race and Body Size in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
This book provides a critical analysis of the cinematic representation of fatness over the last two decades, specifically in contemporary Hollywood cinema, with emphasis on the intersection of gender, race and fatness. The analysis is based on around 50 films released since 2000 and includes examples such as Transformers (2007), Precious (2009), Kung Fu Panda (2008), Paul Blart (2009) and Pitch Perfect (2012). UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 296 pages PB 9781350191662 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350114586 ePub 9781350114593 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350114579 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic
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European Audiences and Contemporary Hollywood Romantic Comedy
Paternity and Masculinity in 1990s Hollywood The father is an enduring and iconic figure in Hollywood cinema and in the 1990s, narratives of redemptive fatherhood featured prominently in some of the decade’s most popular films like Kindergarten Cop (1990), Mrs Doubtfire (1993), Jurassic Park (1993) and The Lion King (1994). Katie Barnett offers an insightful and interdisciplinary discussion of cinematic fathers, interpreting such films through the lens of feminist and queer theory, along with masculinity studies and psychoanalysis. UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 272 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781350191600 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350120884 ePub 9781350120877 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350120860 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic
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