The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies

Description

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.

Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Melissa Hardie, Meaghan Morris, and Kane Race
Part I: Essays
1. Getting It Just Right: Elizabeth Berkley's Ways of Knowing in Showgirls, by Anna Breckon
2. Self-Shattering in Showgirls and Black Swan, by Kane Race
3. "Ain't anyone ever been nice to you?": Discharging the Guilty Pleasure of Showgirls, by Kieryn McKay
4. Badness, by Adrian Martin
5. Showgirls, Showgirls 2, and the Fate of the Erotic Thriller, by Billy Stevenson
6. Fifty Shades of Showgirls: Better Living through Mediation, by Melissa Hardie
7. The Instability of Evil: Double Trouble and the Working Girl, by Meaghan Morris
Part II: Conversations
8. The Accidental Showgirl: Reminiscing with Performer and Pioneer Feminist, Lynne Hutton-Williams, by Jane Chi Hyun Park and Shawna Tang
9. "Fuck you! Pay me": Stripper Art and Storytelling Speaking Back from the Stage, by Zahra Stardust
10. On Cliché, Camp, and Queer Temporality: Discussing Showgirls, by Kara Keeling and Meaghan Morris
Part III: Archive
11. Loose Slots: Figuring the Strip in Showgirls, by Melissa Hardie
12. Round Table: Showgirls, Film Quarterly 56, no. 3 (Spring 2003): 32–46
Index

Sujets

• Human Sexuality
• Social Science
• Popular Culture
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Película fotográfica
• Human sexual activity
• History of film
• Film

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 12 décembre 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253068187
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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