Greta Gerwig's Barbie (eBook, PDF)

Popular Culture, Cinema, and Gender
Redaktion: Radner, Hilary; Stringer, Rebecca

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together an international array of contributors to analyse Greta Gerwig's unprecedented success, Barbie (2023), exploring how a film released in a moment of industrial crisis for Hollywood became the highest-grossing film directed or co-directed by a woman.

Uniting scholars from Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, France, Turkey, the UK, and the USA, this volume provides a set of essays that reflect the complexities of what is, in many ways, a fable for our times. Greta Gerwig's Barbie: Popular Culture, Cinema, and Gender opens with a chapter on the current state of the film industry. Further topics include: the treatment of American girlhood; fashion and feminism; the auteur director; post-indie cinema; queer identities; masculinity; the politics of race, class and gender; contemporary feminisms; consumerism; and the ecology of plastic. As such, the book offers a detailed and nuanced perspective on a benchmark film, produced and distributed by an industry in crisis--the brainchild of a significant director whose star is on the rise.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350523982
• Artikelnr.: 76075226

Autorenporträt

Hilary Radner is Emeritus Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand. She has published widely on gender identity and visual culture, her books include Shopping Around: Consumer Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure (1995), Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks and Consumer Culture (2011), and The New Woman's Film: Femme-centric Movies for Smart Chicks (2017). Rebecca Stringer is Associate Professor of Sociology, Gender Studies, and Criminology at the University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand. She is author of Knowing Victims: Feminism, Agency, and Victim Politics in Neoliberal Times (2014), and co-editor of Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Foreword: If you love Barbie . This movie is for you . If you hate Barbie
. This movie is for you ." by Hilary Radner
Introduction: "Barbie Land," Contextualizing Greta Gerwig's Barbie by
Hilary Radner
Part I: A Fragmented World - The Cultural Moment
1. The Barbenheimer Phenomenon and the Post-Pandemic Streaming-Era Movie
Industry by Thomas Schatz
2. Jo, Meg, Beth, Amy, and Barbie: White American Girlhood in the Work of
Greta Gerwig by Patricia White
3. Fake Feminism and Strident Pink Spectacle: Fashion, Celebrity Culture,
and the Marketing of Greta Gerwig's Barbie by Pamela Church Gibson
Part II: The Greta Gerwig Touch - A Contemporary Auteur
4. Greta Gerwig: From Indiewood to Conglomerate Hollywood--New Iterations
of the Contemporary Auteur by Alex Dickie
5. Barbie, Irony, and Post-Indie Cinema by Claire Perkins
6. "Authentically Artificial": Embodying the Self in Barbie by Suzanne
Ferriss
Part III: Identity
7. Queer Barbie, Weird Barbie, and Greta Gerwig's Many Queer Kens by Sarah
E. S. Sinwell
8. "What Was I Made For?" and "I'm Just Ken": The Musical Binary of Barbie
by Amy Skjerseth and Dylan Young
9. "Barbieist vs. Oppenheimerist": A Gender-based Reception Study of Barbie
in Turkey by Melis Behlil, and Ruken Dogu Erdede,
10. Deeper into Ken: The Accessibility of Ryan Gosling by Michael DeAngelis
Part IV: The Polemics of Barbie
11. Barbie, Feminism, and Consumerism: An Incoherent Combination by
Geneviève Sellier, trans A. Fox
12. The Politics of "Always'' and "Never": The Monologue Heard Around the
World - Race, Class, and Gender in Barbie by Bruce Isaacs
13. Barbie, the Feminist Mattel Ad by Rebecca Stringer
14. Plastic, Kitsch: Ecologies of Barbie Land by Seán Cubitt
Afterword by Rebecca Stringer
Appendices
Greta Gerwig: Biography and Filmography by Alex Dickie with Frédéric
Dichtel
Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023): Summary in Three Acts by Hilary Radner and
Rebecca Stringer
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index