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The Year's Work in <i>Showgirls</i> Studies
Title
The Year's Work in <i>Showgirls</i> Studies / edited by Melissa Hardie, Meaghan Morris, Kane Race.
ISBN
9780253068170
9780253068156
9780253068163
9780253068187
Publication
Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2024.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource (428 pages).
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Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2024.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2024
Series
The year's work : studies in fan culture and cultural theory
Contents
Introduction / Melissa Hardie, Meaghan Morris, and Kane Race
Getting it just right : Elizabeth Berkley's ways of knowing in Showgirls / Anna Breckon
Self-shattering in Showgirls and Black Swan / Kane Race
"Ain't anyone ever been nice to you?" : discharging the guilty pleasure of Showgirls / Kieryn McKay
Badness / Adrian Martin
Showgirls, Showgirls 2, and the fate of the erotic thriller / Billy Stevenson
Fifty shades of Showgirls : better living through mediation / Melissa Hardie
The instability of evil : double trouble and the working girl / Meaghan Morris
The accidental Showgirl : reminiscing with performer and pioneer feminist Lynne Hutton-Williams / Jane Chi Hyun Park and Shawna Tang
"Fuck you! Pay me" : stripper art and storytelling speaking back from the stage / Zahra Stardust
On cliche, camp, and queer temporality : discussing Showgirls / Kara Keeling and Meaghan Morris
Loose slots : figuring the strip in Showgirls / Melissa Hardie
Round table : Showgirls, Film Quarterly 56, No. 3 (Spring 2003): 32-46.
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