Gender and austerity in popular culture : femininity, masculinity & recession in film & television / edited by Helen Davies and Claire O'Callaghan.
"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 f...
| Uniform Title: | Library of gender and popular culture ;
13. |
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd,
2017.
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| Series: | Library of gender and popular culture ;
13. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 215 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Variant Title: |
Femininity, masculinity and recession in film and television |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction: boom and bust? gender and austerity in popular culture / Helen Davies and Claire O'Callaghan
- A big-neo Victorian society? gender, austerity and conservative family values in The Mill / Helen Davies
- THe Downturn at Downton : money and masculinity in Downton Abbey / Claire O'Callaghan
- Wartime housewives and vintage women : A.S. Byatt's Ragnarok : THe End of the Gods and reframing popular nostalgia / Leanne Bibby
- 'Thatcher's Bloody Britain!' : unemployment and gender in neoliberal Britain in The Young Ones and Men Behaving Badly / Lauren Piko and Evan Smith
- From homebuyer advisor to angel of the hearth : the development of Kirstie Allsopp as the female face of channel 4 'Squeezed Middle' austerity programming / Diane Charlesworth
- The Walking Dead and gendering zombie austerity / Zach Finch
- Embodying austerity : food and physicality in The Hunger Games / Erin Wyble Newcomb
- 'I Want What Everyone Wants' : cruel optimism in HBO's Girls / Ruth Charnock
- Baring the recession : sexual sensationalism and gender (a)politics in contemporary culture / Stephanie Genz.