This book explores the increasing imperatives to speak up, to speak out, and to ‘find one’s voice’ in contemporary media culture. It considers how, for women in particular, this seems to constitute a radical break with the historical... more
This book explores the increasing imperatives to speak up, to speak out, and to ‘find one’s voice’ in contemporary media culture. It considers how, for women in particular, this seems to constitute a radical break with the historical idealization of silence and demureness. However, the author argues that there is a growing and pernicious gap between the seductive promise of voice, and voice as it actually exists. While brutal instruments such as the ducking stool and scold’s bridle are no longer in use to punish women’s speech, Kay proposes that communicative injustice now operates in much more insidious ways. The wide-ranging chapters explore the mediated ‘voices’ of women such as Monica Lewinsky, Hannah Gadsby, Diane Abbott, and Yassmin Abdel-Magied, as well as the problems and possibilities of gossip, nagging, and the ‘traumatised voice’ in television talk shows. It critiques the optimistic claims about the ‘unleashing’ of women’s voices post-#MeToo and examines the ways that women’s speech continues to be trivialized and devalued. Communicative justice, the author argues, is not about empowering individuals to ‘find their voice’, but about collectively transforming the whole communicative terrain.
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This book interrogates the hyper-visibility and stubborn endurance of the wedding spectacle across media and culture in the current climate. The wide-ranging chapters consider why the symbolic power of weddings is intensifying at a time... more
This book interrogates the hyper-visibility and stubborn endurance of the wedding spectacle across media and culture in the current climate.
The wide-ranging chapters consider why the symbolic power of weddings is intensifying at a time when marriage as an institution appears to be in decline – and they offer new insights into the shifting and complex gender politics of contemporary culture. The collection is a feminist project but does not straight-forwardly renounce the wedding spectacle. Rather, the diverse contributions offer close analyses of the myriad forms and practices of the wedding spectacle, from reality television and cinematic film to wedding videography and bridal boutiques. Drawing on feminist and queer theory, the chapters illuminate the paradoxes, contradictions, disappointments, cruelties and pleasures that are intimately bound up with the wedding spectacle.
Written by leading and emerging feminist scholars, the chapters range across different national and cultural contexts to explore how the gender politics of weddings are changing and adapting to a new cultural and social landscape. This in-depth analysis of the wedding spectacle will appeal to academics and researchers in the fields of gender and mass media, cultural studies, feminist studies, and intercultural communication.
The wide-ranging chapters consider why the symbolic power of weddings is intensifying at a time when marriage as an institution appears to be in decline – and they offer new insights into the shifting and complex gender politics of contemporary culture. The collection is a feminist project but does not straight-forwardly renounce the wedding spectacle. Rather, the diverse contributions offer close analyses of the myriad forms and practices of the wedding spectacle, from reality television and cinematic film to wedding videography and bridal boutiques. Drawing on feminist and queer theory, the chapters illuminate the paradoxes, contradictions, disappointments, cruelties and pleasures that are intimately bound up with the wedding spectacle.
Written by leading and emerging feminist scholars, the chapters range across different national and cultural contexts to explore how the gender politics of weddings are changing and adapting to a new cultural and social landscape. This in-depth analysis of the wedding spectacle will appeal to academics and researchers in the fields of gender and mass media, cultural studies, feminist studies, and intercultural communication.
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In recent years digital technology has made available an inconceivably vast archive of old media. Images of the past-accessed with the touch of a finger-are now intertwined with those of the present, raising questions about how visual... more
In recent years digital technology has made available an inconceivably vast archive of old media. Images of the past-accessed with the touch of a finger-are now intertwined with those of the present, raising questions about how visual culture affects our relationship with history and memory. This collection of new essays contributes to a growing debate about how the past and its media are appropriated in the modern world. Focusing on a range of visual cultures, the essays explore the intersection of film, television, online and print media and visual art-platforms whose boundaries are increasingly hard to define-and the various ways we engage the past in an environment saturated with the imagery of previous eras. Topics include period screen fiction, nonfiction media histories and memories, cinematic nostalgia and recycling, and the media as both purveyors and carriers of memory.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction (Jilly Boyce Kay, Cat Mahoney and Caitlin Shaw)
Part I.
Recent Historical and Period Fictions: Reframing the 20th Century
Modern Art and Mediated Histories: Pleasantville, Mona Lisa
Smile and Far from Heaven (Christine Sprengler)
Mad Men and Memory: Nostalgia, Intertextuality and Seriality in 21st Century Retro Television (Debarchana Baruah)
The Women’s Land Army Remembered on British Television (Cat Mahoney)
Part II.
Feminism in Non-Fiction Media: Historical Narratives and Counter-Memories
"Spiced with a touch of glitz and a lot of fun": Watch the Woman, "Rogue" Feminism and 1980s Television for Women (Jilly Boyce Kay)
Feminist Magazines and Historicizing the Second Wave: Whose
Histories? (Claire Sedgwick)
Discursive Activism and Counter-Memories of SlutWalk (Kaitlynn Mendes)
Part III.
Media Histories and Discarded Technologies: Recycling Memory in the Information Age
The Same Handful of Images: Submarine, Indie Retro and 2000s Youth Cinema (Caitlin Shaw)
To Hold On or to Let Go? Small-Gauge Amateur Filmmaking
and Nostalgia in Super 8 and Frankenweenie (Marta Wasik)
Room 237: Cinephilia, History and Adaptation (Laura Mee)
Part IV.
Sites of Memory: Mediating Iconic Spaces, Objects and Ephemera
The BBC Archive Post-Jimmy Savile: Irreparable Damage or Recoverable Ground? (Rowan Aust and Amy Holdsworth)
A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Childhood Television Memories (Jo Whitehouse-Hart)
"Whispers of escapades out on the ’D’ train": The Entangled Visions of Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills (Vanessa Longden)
Space and Place to Remember: Television’s Double Articulation in the National Space Centre (Helen Wood and Tim O’Sullivan)
About the Contributors
Index
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction (Jilly Boyce Kay, Cat Mahoney and Caitlin Shaw)
Part I.
Recent Historical and Period Fictions: Reframing the 20th Century
Modern Art and Mediated Histories: Pleasantville, Mona Lisa
Smile and Far from Heaven (Christine Sprengler)
Mad Men and Memory: Nostalgia, Intertextuality and Seriality in 21st Century Retro Television (Debarchana Baruah)
The Women’s Land Army Remembered on British Television (Cat Mahoney)
Part II.
Feminism in Non-Fiction Media: Historical Narratives and Counter-Memories
"Spiced with a touch of glitz and a lot of fun": Watch the Woman, "Rogue" Feminism and 1980s Television for Women (Jilly Boyce Kay)
Feminist Magazines and Historicizing the Second Wave: Whose
Histories? (Claire Sedgwick)
Discursive Activism and Counter-Memories of SlutWalk (Kaitlynn Mendes)
Part III.
Media Histories and Discarded Technologies: Recycling Memory in the Information Age
The Same Handful of Images: Submarine, Indie Retro and 2000s Youth Cinema (Caitlin Shaw)
To Hold On or to Let Go? Small-Gauge Amateur Filmmaking
and Nostalgia in Super 8 and Frankenweenie (Marta Wasik)
Room 237: Cinephilia, History and Adaptation (Laura Mee)
Part IV.
Sites of Memory: Mediating Iconic Spaces, Objects and Ephemera
The BBC Archive Post-Jimmy Savile: Irreparable Damage or Recoverable Ground? (Rowan Aust and Amy Holdsworth)
A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Childhood Television Memories (Jo Whitehouse-Hart)
"Whispers of escapades out on the ’D’ train": The Entangled Visions of Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills (Vanessa Longden)
Space and Place to Remember: Television’s Double Articulation in the National Space Centre (Helen Wood and Tim O’Sullivan)
About the Contributors
Index
