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Much ground has been covered in terms of (post)feminist analyses of
popular film and television, and box office successes such as
Bridget Jones's Diary and television phenomena such as Sex and the
City have become established parts of the now canonical critical
texts on postfeminism, media and popular culture. By analyzing the
negotiation of femininities and masculinities within contemporary
Hollywood cinema, by charting trends in film production and media
reception, and by focusing on the largely neglected intersections
between postfeminism and queer theory, Postfeminism and
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema presents diverse interrogations of
popular cinema. The chapters in this collection position
contemporary commercial production as a space where female
empowerment is both celebrated and undermined, and signal the
necessity of further debate surrounding the formation of gender
identity in postmillennial Hollywood cinema.
How has popular film, television and fiction responded to the
realities of an ageing Western population? This volume analyses
this field of representation to argue that, while celebrations of
ageing as an inspirational journey are increasing, most depictions
still focus on decline and deterioration.
While books such as Belle de Jour's The Intimate Adventures of a
London Call Girl and Catherine Millet's The Sexual Life of
Catherine M. captured the imagination of the reading public and
marked the contemporary erotic memoir as a publishing phenomenon,
the genre has received comparatively scarce scholarly attention.
Through examining the cultural dominance of the figure of the
'phallic girl' (or 'ladette') in the early 21st century, this
pioneering study explores the conflict that arises when the
female-authored erotic memoir - a genre that holds enormous
feminist potential - is co-opted by postfeminist cultural praxis.
By analyzing the impact of the mainstreaming of pornography and the
emergence of new communication technologies on conceptualizations
of intimacy, agency and feminine sexual subjectivities, Erotic
Memoirs and Postfeminism presents a broad critical survey of the
genre and positions contemporary women's erotic memoirs as
contradictory spaces in which female sexual autonomy is both
actively celebrated and perniciously disavowed. The book also
offers the first sustained critical analysis of a range of
contemporary memoirs, including Abby Lee's Girl with a One Track
Mind, Melissa P.'s One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed and
Tracy Quan's Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, amongst others.
How has popular film, television and fiction responded to the
realities of an ageing Western population? This volume analyses
this field of representation to argue that, while celebrations of
ageing as an inspirational journey are increasing, most depictions
still focus on decline and deterioration.
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.
The second in a series, this volume traces the history of the
federal University of Wales from its foundation in 1893 to the eve
of World War II and places it in the broad background of higher
education in Britain. The main strands of academic advance are
considered along with the architecture of the principal buildings
of the University. There are chapters on student life and the
impact of the Great War. Since the University and its colleges were
largely the product of a national movement the last two chapters of
the book are devoted to the relationship between university and
nation and to the nature of Welsh society during a period of
cultural awakening which, argues the author, owed much to the
University of Wales.
The first of a three-volume set, A History of the University of
Wales. It was with a sense of pride and conviction that the
founding fathers of the University of Wales created a national
institution "in and for Wales" in 1893. This volume celebrates the
centenary of the University by recalling the foundation and early
days, tracing the development of the university movement in Wales
from the very beginning to the granting of the Charter in 1893. It
casts a critical eye on an institution which was reputed at its
inception to represent "the soul of the nation".
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