Helen (Hrsg.) Davies

Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture

Femininity, Masculinity and Recession in Film and Television

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From the gritty landscapes of The Hunger Games and The Walking Dead, to the portrayal of the twenty-first-century precariat in Girls, this book explores how transatlantic visual culture has represented and reconstructed ideas of gender in times of financial crisis. Drawing on social, cultural and feminist theory, these writers explore how men and women experience austerity differently and illuminate the problematic ways in which economic policy can shape how gender is presented in popular culture. Written from the perspective that the popular is indeed political, this book considers film, literature and television's ideological attitudes towa… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78672-092-4
EAN: 9781786720924
Produktnummer: 23575122
Verlag: I.B.Tauris
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 240 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 687 KB

Über den Autor

Helen Davies is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at Teesside University. She is on the advisory board of Durham University's Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, and is on the editorial board for Journal of Gender Studies. Claire O'Callaghan is an Associate Lecturer in English at Brunel University. She is the Honorary Treasurer of the Feminist and Women's Studies Association (FWSA) and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Gender Studies.