Title Postfeminist whiteness : problematising melancholic burden in contemporary Hollywood / Kendra Marston.

Publication Info.	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
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Description	1 online resource (ix, 221 pages) : illustrations.
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Series	Edinburgh scholarship online
	Edinburgh scholarship online.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-209), filmography (pages 210-214), and index.
Contents	The world is her oyster: negotiating contemporary white womanhood in Hollywood's tourist spaces -- 'Hoist the colours!' Framing feminism through charismatic white leadership in the fantasy blockbuster -- Neoliberalism, female agency and conspicuous consumption as tragic flaw in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine -- Paranoid attachments to suburban dreams: pathological feminitity in Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train -- Aristocratic whiteness, body trauma and the market logic of melancholia in Black Swan -- Sofia Coppola's melancholic aesthetic: vanishing femininity in an object-oriented world.
Summary	Kendra Marston interrogates representations of melancholic white femininity in contemporary Hollywood cinema, arguing that the melancholic white woman serves as a vehicle through which to explore the excesses of late capitalism and a crisis of faith in the American dream.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Feminism and motion pictures.
	Women, White, in motion pictures.
	Melancholy in motion pictures.
	Race relations in motion pictures.
	PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
	Melancholy in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst02002294
	Feminism and motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst00922742
	Race relations in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01086566
	Women, White, in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01199818
Other Form:	Print version: Marston, Kendra. Postfeminist whiteness. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018] 1474430295 (DLC) 2018288897 (OCoLC)1022080506
ISBN	9781474430319 (webready pdf)
	1474430317 (webready pdf)
	9781474430326 (epub)
	1474430325 (epub)

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