By analyzing the negotiation of femininities and masculinities within contemporary Hollywood cinema, Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema presents diverse interrogations of popular cinema and illustrates the need for a renewed scholarly focus on contemporary film production.
Table of Content
Introduction: Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema; Joel Gwynne and Nadine Muller PART I: POSTFEMINIST FEMININITIES 1. Neo-Feminism In-Between: Female Cosmopolitan Subjects in Contemporary American Film; Ana Moya 2. Querying Postfeminism in Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right ; Clara Bradbury-Rance 3. The Slut that Wasn’t: Virginity, (Post)Feminism and Representation in Easy A ; Katherine Farrimond 4. The Girls of Zeta: Sororities, Ideal Femininity and the Makeover Paradigm in The House Bunny ; Joel Gwynne 5. Ageing Appropriately: Postfeminist Discourses of Ageing in Contemporary Hollywood; Imelda Whelehan PART II: POSTFEMINIST MASCULINITIES 6. ‘Chuck Flick’: A Genealogy of the Postfeminist Male Singleton; Benjamin A. Brabon 7. The Chick’s ‘New Hero’: (Re)Constructing Masculinity in the Postfeminist ‘Chick Flick’; Amy Burns 8. Hollywood Fatherhood: Paternal Postfeminism in Contemporary Popular Cinema; Hannah Hamad 9. Mancaves and Cushions: Marking Masculine and Feminine Domestic Space in Postfeminist Romantic Comedy; Lauren Jade Thompson 10. ‘We’re not making forward progress’: Postfeminist Hypermasculinity in Heat ; Vincent M. Gaine PART III: POSTFEMINISM AND GENRE 11. Towards a New Sexual Conservatism in Postfeminist Romantic Comedy; Alexia Bowler 12. Hell is a Teenage Girl? Postfeminism and Contemporary Teen Horror; Martin Fradley 13. ‘A New Feminist Revolution in Hollywood Comedy’?: Postfeminist Discourses and the Critical Reception of Bridesmaids ; Helen Warner 14. Blood, Sweat and Tears: Women, Sport and Hollywood; Katharina Lindner
About the author
Benjamin A. Brabon, Edge Hill University, UK Clara Bradbury-Rance, postgraduate researcher, UK Alexia L. Bowler, Swansea University, UK Amy Burns, postgraduate researcher, UK Katherine Farrimond, Newcastle University, UK Martin Fradley, University of Aberdeen and Manchester University, UK Vincent M. Gaine is an independent researcher, UK Joel Gwynne, National Institute of Education, Singapore Hannah Hamad, King’s College, London, UK Katharina Lindner, University of Stirling, UK Ana Moya, University of Barcelona, Spain Nadine Muller, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Lauren Jade Thompson, postgraduate researcher, UK Helen Warner, University of East Anglia, UK Imelda Whelehan, University of Tasmania, Australia
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