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Rebellious Bodies: Stardom, Citizenship, and the New Body Politics

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By (author): Russell Meeuf

Celebrity culture today teems with stars who challenge long-held ideas about a normal body. Plus-size and older actresses are rebelling against the cultural obsession with slender bodies and youth. Physically disabled actors and actresses are moving beyond the stock roles and stereotypes that once constrained their opportunities. Stars of various races and ethnicities are crafting new narratives about cultural belonging, while transgender performers are challenging our cultures assumptions about gender and identity. But do these new players in contemporary entertainment media truly signal a new acceptance of body diversity in popular culture?

Focusing on six key examplesMelissa McCarthy, Gabourey Sidibe, Peter Dinklage, Danny Trejo, Betty White, and Laverne CoxRebellious Bodies examines the new body politics of stardom, situating each star against a prominent cultural anxiety about bodies and inclusion, evoking issues ranging from the obesity epidemic and the rise of postracial rhetoric to disability rights, Latino/a immigration, an aging population, and transgender activism. Using a wide variety of sources featuring these celebritiesfilms, TV shows, entertainment journalism, and moreto analyze each ones media persona, Russell Meeuf demonstrates that while these stars are promoted as examples of a supposedly more inclusive industry, the reality is far more complex. Revealing how their bodies have become sites for negotiating the still-contested boundaries of cultural citizenship, he uncovers the stark limitations of inclusion in a deeply unequal world.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 399g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Mar 2017
  • Publisher: University of Texas Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781477311813

About Russell Meeuf

RUSSELL MEEUF is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Media at the University of Idaho.

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