HBO’s Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege

HBO’s Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege
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Artikel-Nr:
9781498512626
Veröffentl:
2015
Seiten:
220
Autor:
Elwood Watson
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:

This book studies the HBO program Girls from multiple perspectives by comparing the series to similar programs from decades past as well as to the show's contemporaries in the present. By examining the show through the lenses of gender, race, sexuality, and culture. This book synthesizes and analyzes many of the most pressing issues that have surfaced in a show that has firmly etched itself in the fabric of early twenty-first century popular culture.

HBO’s Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege is a collection of essays that examines the HBO program Girls. Since its premiere in 2012, the series has garnered the attention of individuals from various walks of life. The show has been described in many terms: insightful, out-of-touch, brash, sexist, racist, perverse, complex, edgy, daring, provocative—just to name a few. Overall, there is no doubt that Girls has firmly etched itself in the fabric of early twenty-first-century popular culture.

The essays in this book examine the show from various angles including: white privilege; body image; gender; culture; race; sexuality; parental and generational attitudes; third wave feminism; male emasculation and immaturity; hipster, indie, and urban music as it relates to Generation Y and Generation X. By examining these perspectives, this book uncovers many of the most pressing issues that have surfaced in the show, while considering the broader societal implications therein.


Acknowledgements

        1. Introduction
Reading Into Girls, Writing What We Read
Elwood Watson, Jennifer Mitchell and Marc E. Shaw

Chapter 1
She's Just Not That Into You: Dating, Damage and Gender
Jennifer Mitchell

Chapter 2
The Body Police: Lena Dunham, Susan Bordo and HBO Girls
Joycelyn Bailey

Chapter 3
Owning Her Abjection: Lena Dunham's Feminist Body Politics
Maria San Filippo

Chapter 4
Girls' Issues: The Feminist Politics of Girls Celebration of The Trivial
Yael Levy

Chapter 5
Falling from Pedestals: Dunham’s Cracked Girls and Boys
Marc E. Shaw

Chapter 6
Capitalizing on Cool: The Music That Makes Girls
Hank Willenbrink

Chapter 7
Generation X Archtypes and HBO Girls
Tom Pace

Chapter 8
Reading Girls: Bringing Sexy Back To Girls
Laura Witherington

Chapter 9
Lena Dunham: The Awkward/Ambiguous Politics of A Millennial White Girl
Elwood Watson

Chapter 10
Marnye On the Ones and Twos: Appropriating Race, Criticizing Class in Girls
Lloyd Isaac Vayo

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