Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture - Femininity, Masculinity and Recession in Film and Television

About the author

Dr Claire O’Callaghan, Associate Lecturer in English, Brunel University, UK.

Summary

From the gritty landscapes of The Hunger Games and The Walking Dead, to the portrayal of the twenty-first-century precariat in Girls, this book explores how transatlantic visual culture has represented and reconstructed ideas of gender in times of financial crisis. Drawing on social, cultural and feminist theory, these writers explore how men and women experience austerity differently and illuminate the problematic ways in which economic policy can shape how gender is presented in popular culture. Written from the perspective that the popular is indeed political, this book considers film, literature and television's ideological attitudes towards race, sex and disability. It also takes into account how mass culture has responded to austerity in the past and the present, whilst examining the impact that feminism will have in the future.

Foreword

A unique look at how austerity effects how gender is presented in transatlantic popular culture.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Davies, Claire O'Callaghan
• Assisted by: Helen Davies (Editor), Claire O’Callaghan (Editor), Claire O'Callaghan (Editor), Angela Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9781350258969
• ISBN: 978-1-350-25896-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture; Library of Gender and Popular
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminism and feminist theory, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General