Gender and austerity in popular culture : femininity, masculinity & recession in film & television / edited by Helen Davies and Claire O'Callaghan.
| Other author | Davies, Helen, 1983- editor. |
| Other author | O'Callaghan, Claire editor. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | London : I.B. Tauris, 2017. |
| Description | 1 online resource (xv, 215 pages). |
| Supplemental Content | EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Library of Gender and Popular Culture ; 13 Library of gender and popular culture ; 13. ^A1325767 |
| Contents | Author Bio; Endorsement; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Series Editors' Foreword; Introduction: Boom and Bust? Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture; Austere Times for Feminism? Gendering the Recession; Feminism Goes Pop: Constructing Culture, Constructing (Post)Femininities; Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture: Chapter Summaries; Notes; Bibliography; 1 A Big Neo-Victorian Society?: Gender, Austerity and Conservative Family Values in The Mill |
| Contents | Dependency, Responsibility and Gendering the Recession: David Cameron's Family Values; Paternal Problems: Gendering the Working Body in The Mill, Series One; Austere Times for Feminism? The Mill, Series Two; Notes; Bibliography; 2 The Downturn at Downton: Money and Masculinity in Downton Abbey; The Ruin of Robert Crawley; Austerity at the Abbey; The Post-Recessional Fool; Conclusion: Lessons from the Abbey; Notes; Bibliography; 3 Wartime Housewives and Vintage Women: A. S. Byatt's Ragnarok: The End of the Gods and Reframing Popular Nostalgia; Conclusions: Feminist Mythopoeia and Horizons; Notes |
| Contents | 5 From Homebuyer Advisor to Angel of the Hearth: The Development of Kirstie Allsopp as the Female Face of Channel 4 'Squeezed Middle' Austerity Programming; Notes; Bibliography; 6 The Walking Dead and Gendering Zombie Austerity; Cutting Back: The Walking Dead's Industrial and Narrative Austerity; White Males Back on Top in the Zombie Apocalypse; Note; Bibliography; 7 Embodying Austerity: Food and Physicality in The Hunger Games; Austere Consumption; Spectacle and Consumption; Consumable Bodies; Bibliography; 8 'I Want What Everyone Wants': Cruel Optimism in HBO's Girls; Girls and the Millennial |
| Contents | Cruel OptimismThe Impasse of 'One Man's Trash'; 'I Want What Everyone Wants': Hannah's Confession; Conclusion: Girls' Cruel Optimism; Notes; Bibliography; 9 Baring the Recession: Sexual Sensationalism and Gender (A)politics in Contemporary Culture; Austerity Neoliberalism and Boob and Bust Politics; Gotta Fuck and Post-Sexism; Notes; Bibliography |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Spec. audience char. | Specialized. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 25, 2017). |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781786730923 electronic bk. |
| ISBN | 1786730928 electronic bk. |
| ISBN | 9781786720924 electronic bk. |
| ISBN | 1786720922 electronic bk. |
| Stock number | 4773342 Proquest Ebook Central |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |