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Author_Suzanna Danuta Walters
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feminism
feminist cultural theory
film and television
gender
gender and sex
gender studies
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madonna
male gaze
media icons
media studies
murphy brown
narrative
narrative theory
outlaw women
popular culture
popular discourse
post feminism
postmodernism
postmodernity
psychoanalysis
representations of women
single mothers
spectatorship
thelma and louise
ways of seeing
women and imagery
womens movement
Product details
- ISBN 9780520089785
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 1995
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Madonna, Murphy Brown, Thelma and Louise: These much-discussed media icons are the starting points of Suzanna Walter's brilliant, much-needed introduction to feminist cultural theory. Accessible yet theoretically sophisticated, up-to-date and entertaining, "Material Girls" acquaints readers with the major theories, debates, and concepts in this new and exciting field. With numerous case studies and illustrations, Walters situates feminist cultural theory against the background of the women's movement and media studies. Using examples from film, television, advertising, and popular discourse, she looks at topics such as the 'male gaze', narrative theory, and new work on female 'ways of seeing' and spectatorship. Throughout, Walters provides a historically grounded account of representations of women in popular culture while critiquing the dominance of psychoanalytic and postmodern analyses. The first comprehensive guide to the approaches and debates that make up this growing field, "Material Girls" belongs on the shelf of every cultural critic and savvy student today.
Suzanna Danuta Walters is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, and author of Lives Together/Worlds Apart: Mothers and Daughters in Popular Culture (California, 1992).
