Postfeminist whiteness : problematising melancholic burden in contemporary Hollywood /: problematising melancholic burden in contemporary Hollywood. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kendra Marston.
• Authors: Marston, Kendra
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 221 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 791.43/6522; Feminism and motion pictures; Women, White, in motion pictures; Melancholy in motion pictures; Race relations in motion pictures; PERFORMING ARTS / Reference; Melancholy in motion pictures; Feminism and motion pictures; Race relations in motion pictures; Women, White, in motion pictures; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474430319; 1474430317; 9781474430326; 1474430325
• Related ISBNs: 9781474430296; 1474430295
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-209), filmography (pages 210-214), and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.