The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies (The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory)

By: Anna Breckon and Kara Keeling and Adrian Martin and Kieryn McKay and Jane Chi Park and Zahra Stardust and Billy Stevenson and Shawna Tang

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Synopsis: The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies is a fan culture volume that deconstructs how and why Showgirls, a 1995 drama with a female lead bent on becoming a famous performer in Las Vegas, became a much-contested cult film despite being a critical failure when it released. The collection orchestrates a conversation between scholarly essay work and archival documentation offering a magnificent representation of the array of responses generated by the film, its makers, its promoters, and its audience. A multifaceted approach to the film, its popularity, and its social relevance results in a new text for understanding normative social hierarchies of sexuality, race, and gender. The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies engages with the figurative and actual place of sex work and feminized affective labor in our society.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 428 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780253068187
Related ISBNs:: 9780253068156, 9780253068170, 9780253068163
Publisher:: Indiana University Press
Date of Addition:: 02/06/24
Copyrighted By:: IUP
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Psychology, Social Studies, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Melissa Hardie
Edited by:: Meaghan Morris
Edited by:: Kane Race