HBO's Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1498522998 ISBN 13 : 9781498522991

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2017

Synopsis

HBO’s Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege is a collection of essays that examines the HBO program Girls. Since its premiere in 2012, the series has garnered the attention of individuals from various walks of life. The show has been described in many terms: insightful, out-of-touch, brash, sexist, racist, perverse, complex, edgy, daring, provocative—just to name a few. Overall, there is no doubt that Girls has firmly etched itself in the fabric of early twenty-first-century popular culture. The essays in this book examine the show from various angles including: white privilege; body image; gender; culture; race; sexuality; parental and generational attitudes; third wave feminism; male emasculation and immaturity; hipster, indie, and urban music as it relates to Generation Y and Generation X. By examining these perspectives, this book uncovers many of the most pressing issues that have surfaced in the show, while considering the broader societal implications therein.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Elwood Watson is professor of history, African American studies and gender studies at East Tennessee State University. He is the author and co-author of a number of books and articles, including Outsiders Within: Black Women in the Legal Academy after Brown v. Board (2009), and is a blogger and columnist for Diverse Education, X/Y Online, BlackPast.org, and Your Black World.

Jennifer Mitchell is visiting assistant professor of English at Union College.

Marc Edward Shaw is associate professor of theatre arts at Hartwick College (Oneonta, New York). He is co-editor of Performing American Masculinities: The 21st-Century Man in Popular Culture (2011) and HBO's Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege (Lexington Books, 2015).

Tom Pace is Associate Professor of English at John Carroll University, USA, where he directs the first-year writing program, written in the core curriculum, and the professional writing major. He teaches classes on writing, literature, and the Beatles. His research areas include style, the history of writing instruction, Generation X, and the Beatles. His work has appeared in Composition Studies, The Journal of American Culture, and The Journal of Beatles Studies. He has also published on the rhetoric of Generation X in Mad Men, Girls, and in the romantic comedies of Judd Apatow and has presented research on the Beatles at the national Popular Culture Association Conference. He is also the co-editor of the Bloomsbury series, Generation X: Studies in Culture, Demographics, and Media Representation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498522998
• ISBN 13: 9781498522991
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 210
• Éditeur: Watson Elwood
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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