Articles on class and femininity in Snog, Marry, Avoid, female “madness” in Insidious, gender representation and Frozen, postfeminism and Weeds, and teaching gender and race with The Golden Girls.
By analyzing the negotiation of femininities and masculinities within contemporary Hollywood cinema and by focusing on the largely neglected intersections between postfeminism and queer theory this volume presents diverse interrogations of popular cinema. The chapters in this collection position contemporary commercial production as a space where female empowerment is both celebrated and undermined, and signal the necessity of further debate surrounding the formation of gender identity in postmillennial Hollywood cinema.