Journal•ISSN: 1468-0777
Feminist Media Studies
Taylor & Francis
About: Feminist Media Studies is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Feminism & Sociology. It has an ISSN identifier of 1468-0777. Over the lifetime, 1696 publications have been published receiving 26275 citations.
Topics: Feminism, Sociology, Gender studies, Queer, Narrative
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look back at Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (VP&NC) itself (Laura Mulvey 1975), and the theoretical and political context in which it app...
Abstract: Preparing this piece, I found myself looking back, not only at “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (“VP&NC”) itself (Laura Mulvey 1975), and the theoretical and political context in which it app...
1,285 citations
TL;DR: The authors presents a series of possible conceptual frames for engaging with what has come to be known as post-feminism, which is defined as an active process by which feminities change over time.
Abstract: This article presents a series of possible conceptual frames for engaging with what has come to be known as post‐feminism. It understands post‐feminism to refer to an active process by which femini...
988 citations
TL;DR: The authors explored the role played by disgust reactions in the generation and circulation of the chav figure through popular media and argued that the "chav mum" is produced through disgust reactions as an intensely affective figure that embodies historically familiar and contemporary anxieties about female sexuality, reproduction, fertility, and racial mixing.
Abstract: In the last three years a new vocabulary of social class has emerged in Britain. The word “chav,” alongside its various synonyms and regional variations, has become a ubiquitous term of abuse for the white poor. This article explores the emergence of the grotesque and comic figure of the chav within a range of contemporary British media focusing on the role played by disgust reactions in the generation and circulation of the chav figure through popular media. Concentrating on the figure of the female chav, and the vilification of young white working-class mothers, this article argues that the “chav mum” is produced through disgust reactions as an intensely affective figure that embodies historically familiar and contemporary anxieties about female sexuality, reproduction, fertility, and “racial mixing.” The reason Vicky Pollard caught the public imagination is that she embodies with such fearful accuracy of several of the great scourges of contemporary Britain: aggressive all-female gangs of embittered, h...
558 citations
TL;DR: The authors argue for the importance of being able to "think together" the rise of popular feminism alongside and in tandem with intensified misogyny and highlight the multiplicity of different feminisms currently circulating in mainstream media culture, which exist in tension with each other.
Abstract: This article contributes to debates about the value and utility of the notion of postfeminism for a seemingly “new” moment marked by a resurgence of interest in feminism in the media and among young women. The paper reviews current understandings of postfeminism and criticisms of the term’s failure to speak to or connect with contemporary feminism. It offers a defence of the continued importance of a critical notion of postfeminism, used as an analytical category to capture a distinctive contradictory-but-patterned sensibility intimately connected to neoliberalism. The paper raises questions about the meaning of the apparent new visibility of feminism and highlights the multiplicity of different feminisms currently circulating in mainstream media culture—which exist in tension with each other. I argue for the importance of being able to “think together” the rise of popular feminism alongside and in tandem with intensified misogyny. I further show how a postfeminist sensibility informs even those m...
479 citations
TL;DR: In Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Simone Browne re-imagines the theoretical framework undergirding the interdisciplinary field of surveillance studies: "how is the frame necessaril...
Abstract: In Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Simone Browne re-imagines the theoretical framework undergirding the interdisciplinary field of surveillance studies: “how is the frame necessaril...
441 citations