The Year's Work in <i>Showgirls</i> Studies (eBook)

Melissa Hardie, Meaghan Morris, Kane Race (Herausgeber)

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2023
428 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-06818-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies is a fan culture volume that deconstructs how and why Showgirls, a 1995 drama with a female lead bent on becoming a famous performer in Las Vegas, became a much-contested cult film despite being a critical failure when it released. The collection orchestrates a conversation between scholarly essay work and archival documentation offering a magnificent representation of the array of responses generated by the film, its makers, its promoters, and its audience. A multifaceted approach to the film, its popularity, and its social relevance results in a new text for understanding normative social hierarchies of sexuality, race, and gender. The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies engages with the figurative and actual place of sex work and feminized affective labor in our society.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.12.2023
• Reihe/Serie: The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
• Reihe/Serie: The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
• Co-Autor: Anna Breckon, Kara Keeling, Adrian Martin, Kieryn McKay, Jane Chi Hyun Park, Zahra Stardust, Billy Stevenson, Shawna Tang
• Zusatzinfo: 25 b&w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: CAMP • Cult Film • Digital Culture • erotic politics • Feminism • Gendered Labor • Guilty Pleasure • Queer Theory • Sexuality • Sex Work
• ISBN-10: 0-253-06818-5 / 0253068185
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-06818-7 / 9780253068187