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  • Christmas Eve in a Gum Tree and other lost Australian Christmas stories

    Edited by Katherine Bode ...
    Christmas in fiction – a time when families reunite and love blossoms, when evil is overcome and tragedy is averted. Cruelty and revenge are offset by heroism and forgiveness, and constancy in love is rewarded. But in Australia Christmas stories are also marked by fire and flood, cyclone and drought, and the perils of isolation. Cattle drovers find themselves stuck in a gumtree, a pitiless ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Feminism and Popular Culture

    Investigating the Postfeminist Mystique

    by Rebecca Munford, Melanie Waters ...
    When the term “postfeminism” entered the media lexicon in the 1990s, it was often accompanied by breathless headlines about the “death of feminism.” Those reports of feminism’s death may have been greatly exaggerated, and yet contemporary popular culture often conjures up a world in which feminism had never even been born, a fictional universe filled with suburban Stepford wives, maniacal career ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Screen Adaptation

    Impure Cinema

    by Professor Imelda Whelehan, Dr. Deborah Cartmell ...
    Adaptation studies has historically been neglected in both the English and Film Studies curricula. Reflecting on this, Screen Adaptation celebrates its emergence in the late 20th and 21st centuries and explores the varieties of methodologies and debates within the field. Drawing on approaches from genre studies to transtexuality to cultural materialism, the book examines adaptations of both ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Adaptations

    From Text to Screen, Screen to Text

    Edited by Deborah Cartmell, Imelda Whelehan ...
    Adaptations considers the theoretical and practical difficulties surrounding the translation of a text into film, and the reverse process; the novelisation of films. Through three sets of case studies, the contributors examine the key debates surrounding adaptations: whether screen versions of literary classics can be faithful to the text; if something as capsulated as Jane Austens irony can even ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen

    Edited by Deborah Cartmell, Imelda Whelehan ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular literature, fantasy, genre and adaptations for children. There are also case studies, such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the nineteenth-century novel ... Read more

    Was $33.99 USD Now $28.69 USD

  • Reading Lena Dunham’s Girls

    Feminism, postfeminism, authenticity and gendered performance in contemporary television

    Edited by Meredith Nash, Imelda Whelehan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    In this book, leading and emerging scholars consider the mixed critical responses to Lena Dunham’s TV series Girls and reflect on its significance to contemporary debates about postfeminist popular cultures in a post-recession context. The series features both familiar and innovative depictions of young women and men in contemporary America that invite comparisons with Sex and the City. It aims ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Key Concepts in Gender Studies

    by Jane Pilcher, Imelda Whelehan ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    The new edition of Key Concepts in Gender Studies is a lively and engaging introduction to this dynamic field.Thoroughly revised throughout, the second edition benefits from the addition of nine new concepts including Gender Social Movements, Intersectionality and Mainstreaming.Each of the entries:begins with a concise definitionoutlines the history of each term and the debates surrounding ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • The Feminist Bestseller

    From Sex and the Single Girlto Sex and the City

    by Professor Imelda Whelehan ...
    Imelda Whelehan provides an overview of popular women's writing from the late 1960s to the present, looking at how key feminist texts such as The Women's Room, Kinflicks and Fear of Flying have influenced popular contemporary fiction such as Bridget Jones' Diary and Sex and the City. Whelehan reconsiders the links between the politics of feminist thought, action and writing and creative writing ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Feminisms and Ruralities

    by Jenny Barker Devine, Lia Bryant, Anne Byrne, Nata Duvvury, Sara Egge, Gro Follo, Marit S. Haugen, Julie C. Keller, Belinda Leach, Mona Livholts, Susan Machum, Áine Macken-Walsh, Nicole Power, Jennifer Rogers-Brown, Sally Shortall, Maarit Sireni, Tanya Watson, Kate Cairns, Professor Imelda Whelehan ...
    Feminist concern with difference has rarely extended to rurality even if it is now widely recognized that experiences of inequality depend on intersections of several identities in each individual life. This lack of concern may reflect the urban background of the majority of feminist academics or at least their urban positionality once in the academy. It may equivalently be that feminists have ... Read more

    $46.99 USD