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UNINA9910808516303321 |
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Religious narratives in contemporary culture : between cultural memory and transmediality / / edited by Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru and Dragoș Manea |
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Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Koninklijke Brill NV, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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Studies in religion and the arts ; ; Volume 17 |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Negotiations between the spiritual and the secular -- Oppression and resistance -- Transmedial religious narratives in unreal and posthuman worlds. |
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Religious Narratives in Contemporary Culture: Between Cultural Memory and Transmediality analyses the meaning and role of religion in western cultural practices in the twenty-first century. This inquiry situates itself at the intersection between cultural memory studies and the transmedial study of narrative and art. Contributors focus on genres which have yet to receive significant critical attention within the field, including speculative fiction films and television series, autobiographical prose and poetry, action-adventure video games and heavy metal music. In this time of crisis, where traces of religious thinking still persist in the presence or absence of religious faith, this volume's collective look into some of their cultural embodiments is necessary and timely. The volume is addressed primarily to scholars and students interested in intersections between religious and cultural studies, revisions of traditional religious narratives, literature as a space of reflection on today's world, contemporary media studies and remediation. |
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UNINA9910813426603321 |
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Autore |
Willson Jacki |
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Being gorgeous : feminism, sexuality and the pleasures of the visual. / / Jacki Willson |
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London [England] : , : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, , 2015 |
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[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2019 |
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0-85773-999-9 |
0-7556-9397-3 |
1-78076-284-4 |
0-85772-691-9 |
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[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (242 p.) |
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International Library of Cultural Studies ; ; 27 |
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Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) |
Femininity |
Sex role |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-223) and index. |
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Introduction: Being Gorgeous and Feminism -- Part One: Sexuality, Gender & the Art & Erotics of Visual Extravagance. 1 Drop Dead Gorgeous ; 2 Skin Deep -- Part Two: The Pleasure of the Visual (Being Gorgeous and the 'Low'). 3 Crinoline & Cupcakes ; 4 Powder Puff & Beauty Spots -- Part Three: Bitter-Sweet Poetry (Being Gorgeous and the 'High'). 5 The Paradoxical Body ; 6 The Sensual Body ; 7 Pleasure, Violence & the Sensual Spectacle ; 8 Creative Spectatorship & the Political Imagination -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Being Gorgeous explores the ways in which extravagance, flamboyance and dressing up can open up possibilities for women to play around anarchically with familiar stereotypical tropes of femininity. This is protest through play - a pleasurable misbehaviour that reflects a feminism for the twenty-first century. Jacki Willson discusses how, whether through pastiche, parody, or pure pleasure, artists, artistes and indeed the spectators themselves can operate in excess of the restrictive images which saturate our visual culture. By referring to a wide spectrum of examples, including Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, |
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Matthew Barney, Dr Sketchy's, Audacity Chutzpah, Burly Q and Carnesky's Ghost Train, Being Gorgeous demonstrates how contemporary female performers embody, critique and thoroughly relish their own representation by inappropriately re-appropriating femininity. |
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