HBO's Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege 978-1-4985-1261-9, 1498512615, 9781498522991, 1498522998, 978-1-4985-1262-6

"HBO's Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege is a collection of essays that examines t

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English Pages 203 Year 2015

HBO's Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege
978-1-4985-1261-9, 1498512615, 9781498522991, 1498522998, 978-1-4985-1262-6

Author / Uploaded
Mitchell
Jennifer; Shaw
Marc E.; Watson
Elwood

Table of contents :
Content: Introduction : reading into Girls, writing what we read --
She's just not that into you : dating, damage, and gender / Jennifer Mitchell --
"The body police" : Lena Dunham, Susan Bordo, and HBO's Girls / Jocelyn L. Bailey --
Owning her abjection : Lena Dunham's feminist politics of embodiment / Maria San Filippo --
Girls' issues : the feminist politics of Girls's celebration of the 'trivial' / Yael Levy --
Falling from pedestals : Dunham's cracked Girls and boys / Marc Edward Shaw --
Capitalizing on post-hipster cool : the music that makes Girls / Hank Willenbrink --
Generation X archetypes in HBO's Girls / Tom Pace --
Reading Girls : diegesis and distinction / Laura Witherington --
Lena Dunham : the awkward/ambiguous politics of white millennial feminism / Elwood Watson --
Marnye on the ones and twos : appropriating race, criticizing class in Girls / Lloyd Isaac Vayo.

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