Post-feminism at an impasse? The woman author heroine in postrecessionary American film

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Thouaille, Marie-Alix (2019) Post-feminism at an impasse? The woman author heroine in postrecessionary American film. Feminist Media Studies, 19 (4). pp. 495-509. ISSN 1468-0777

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Abstract

In this article, I sketch some of the ways in which postrecessionary films such as Young Adult problematise post-feminism as a “genre of living.” In deploying heroines who orient themselves toward the post-feminist good life by taking up the desirable subjectivity of “woman author” and yet find themselves unable to reap the promises of post-feminism, these texts exemplify what Lauren Berlant terms “cruel optimism.” Through its analysis of Young Adult, this article advocates for the need to integrate affect theory concepts and methodologies in the study of post-feminist media culture. Affect theory, and in particular the framework of cruel optimism, I contend, has the potential to open up new avenues of enquiry within the study of post-feminism, a critical genre that has arguably arrived at an impasse.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	affect theory,cruel optimism,post-feminism,post-postfeminism,young adult,gender studies,communication,visual arts and performing arts,sdg 5 - gender equality ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3318
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	16 Jan 2019 15:30
Last Modified:	14 Jun 2023 13:38
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/69595
DOI:	10.1080/14680777.2018.1546203

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