HBO's Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege (eBook)

Elwood Watson, Jennifer Mitchell, Marc Edward Shaw (Herausgeber)

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2015
220 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1262-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This book studies the HBO program Girls from multiple perspectives by comparing the series to similar programs from decades past as well as to the show's contemporaries in the present. By examining the show through the lenses of gender, race, sexuality, and culture. This book synthesizes and analyzes many of the most pressing issues that have surfaced in a show that has firmly etched itself in the fabric of early twenty-first century popular culture.

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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.

Autor

Elwood Watson is professor of history, gender studies, and African-American studies at East Tennessee State University.Jennifer Mitchell teaches at Weber State University.Marc Shaw is associate professor of Theater Arts at Hartwick College.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements IntroductionReading Into Girls, Writing What We Read Elwood Watson, Jennifer Mitchell and Marc E. ShawChapter 1She's Just Not That Into You: Dating, Damage and GenderJennifer MitchellChapter 2The Body Police: Lena Dunham, Susan Bordo and HBO Girls Joycelyn Bailey Chapter 3Owning Her Abjection: Lena Dunham's Feminist Body Politics Maria San Filippo Chapter 4Girls' Issues: The Feminist Politics of Girls Celebration of The TrivialYael Levy Chapter 5Falling from Pedestals: Dunham’s Cracked Girls and BoysMarc E. Shaw Chapter 6Capitalizing on Cool: The Music That Makes Girls Hank Willenbrink Chapter 7Generation X Archtypes and HBO Girls Tom PaceChapter 8Reading Girls: Bringing Sexy Back To GirlsLaura WitheringtonChapter 9Lena Dunham: The Awkward/Ambiguous Politics of A Millennial White Girl Elwood WatsonChapter 10Marnye On the Ones and Twos: Appropriating Race, Criticizing Class in GirlsLloyd Isaac Vayo

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.8.2015
• Co-Autor: Joycelyn Bailey, Maria San Filippo, Yael Levy, Tom Pace, Lloyd Isaac Vayo, Hank Willenbrink, Laura Witherington
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Girls • HBO • HBO gender • HBO Girls • HBO Girls and Racial Politics • Lena Dunham • Lena Dunham and controversy • Lena Dunham and Millennial Culture • Lena Dunham Bad Girl of Television • Television • The Sexual Politics of Lena Dunham • Tiny Furniture
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-1262-3 / 1498512623
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-1262-6 / 9781498512626