Girls Like This, Boys Like That The Reproduction of Gender in Contemporary Youth Cultures

Victoria Cann

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• What role does taste play in contemporary youth culture? How do young people reproduce, or alternatively, reject gender norms? Using new research and ... Lees meer

Fathers on Film

Katie Barnett

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• The father is an enduring and iconic figure in Hollywood cinema and in the 1990s, narratives of redemptive fatherhood featured prominently in some of ... Lees meer

The Gendered Motorcycle Representations in Society, Media and Popular Culture

Esperanza Miyake

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• What happens to gender at 120mph? Are Harley-Davidsons more masculine than Yamahas? The Gendered Motorcycle answers such questions through a critical ... Lees meer

Girls Like This, Boys Like That

Victoria Cann

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• What role does taste play in contemporary youth culture? How do young people reproduce, or alternatively, reject gender norms? Using new research and ... Lees meer

Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies

Gemma Commane

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• What makes a woman 'bad' is commonly linked to certain 'qualities' or behaviours seen as morally or socially corrosive, dirty and disgusting. In Bad G... Lees meer

Television Comedy and Femininity Queering Gender

Rosie White

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• Can comedy on television harbour elements of gender transgression or subversion? If a man is permitted to be 'funny peculiar' - playing the underdog o... Lees meer

Tweenhood

Melanie Kennedy

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• A powerful female, pre-adolescent, consumer demographic has emerged in tandem with girls becoming more visible in popular culture since the 1990s. Yet... Lees meer

From the Margins to the Mainstream

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• This book explores the various issues raised by women's fraught integration into the mainstream in film and television, whether it be off screen as fi... Lees meer

Gay Pornography

John Mercer

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• Gay pornography, online and onscreen, is a controversial and significantly under-researched area of cultural production. In the first book of its kind... Lees meer

The Gypsy Woman

Jodie Matthews

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• The exotic and dangerous stereotype of the Gypsy woman formed in nineteenth-century literature and visual culture remains alive today. These contempor... Lees meer

Queer Horror Film and Television

Darren Elliott-Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• In recent years, the representation of alternative sexuality in the horror film and television has "outed" itself from the shadows from which it once ... Lees meer

Feel-Bad Postfeminism

Catherine McDermott

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• In Feel-Bad Postfeminism , Catherine McDermott provides crucial insight into what growing up during empowerment postfeminism feels like, and outlines ... Lees meer

Male and Female Violence in Popular Media

Elisa Giomi, Sveva Magaraggia

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• Male and Female Violence in Popular Media brings into focus the apparently symmetrical phenomena of men's violence against women and women's violence ... Lees meer

Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema

Marianne Kac-Vergne

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• If science fiction stages the battle between humans and non-humans, whether alien or machine, who is elected to fight for us? In the classics of scien... Lees meer

Conflicting Masculinities

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• Never before has period drama offered viewers such an assortment of complex male characters, from transported felons and syphilitic detectives to shel... Lees meer

Young Women, Girls and Postfeminism in Contemporary British Film

Sarah Hill

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• In the 21st century, films about the lives and experiences of girls and young women have become increasingly visible. Yet, British cinema's engagement... Lees meer

Gay Pornography

John Mercer

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• Gay pornography, online and onscreen, is a controversial and significantly under-researched area of cultural production. In the first book of its kind... Lees meer

Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction

Leah Phillips

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• The heroic romance is one of the West's most enduring narratives, found everywhere, from religion and myth to blockbuster films and young adult litera... Lees meer

Fat on FilmGender, Race and Body Size in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

Barbara Plotz

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• Over the last two decades, fatness has become the focus of ubiquitous negative rhetoric, in the USA and beyond, presented under the cover of the medic... Lees meer

Gendering History on Screen

Julia Erhart

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• Movies about significant historical personalities or landmark events like war seem to be governed by a set of unspoken rules for the expression of gen... Lees meer

Postfeminism and Contemporary Vampire Romance

Lea Gerhards

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• In this book, Lea Gerhards traces connections between three recent vampire romance series; the Twilight film series (2008-2012), The Vampire Diaries (... Lees meer

All-American TV Crime Drama

Sujata Moorti, Lisa Cuklanz

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• Law and Order Special Victims Unit (SVU) is more popular than any other American police procedural television series, but how does its unique focus on... Lees meer

From the Margins to the Mainstream

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• This book explores the various issues raised by women's fraught integration into the mainstream in film and television, whether it be off screen as fi... Lees meer

Conflicting Masculinities Men in Television Period Drama

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• Never before has period drama offered viewers such an assortment of complex male characters, from transported felons and syphilitic detectives to shel... Lees meer