1st Edition
The Madonna Connection Representational Politics, Subcultural Identities, And Cultural Theory
356 Pages
by
Routledge
356 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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Various cultural theories (foremost among them, postmodernism) have figured in the debate over the politics of representation. These theories have tended to look at representation in the context of either audience enablement or commercial constraint; that is, do the images empower the public or inhibit it? One key area consistently overlooked has the been the study of subcultural or subordinate... Read more
Introduction: Connections/Intersections -- Out of Bounds: Reading Race and Madonna's Audiences -- "A Sacred Monster in Her Prime": Audience Construction of Madonna as Low-Other -- Madonna T/Races: Music Videos Through the Prism of Color -- Images of Race & Religion in Madonna's Video Like a Prayer: Prayer & Praise -- The Sapphic Insurgent: Madonna and Gay Culture -- Embodying Subaltern Memory: Kinesthesia & the Problematics of Gender & Race -- Justify Our Love: Madonna & the Politics of Queer Sex -- Madonna's Postmodern Feminism: Bringing the Margins to the Center -- Gender Trouble: Madonna Poses the Feminist Question -- Madonna Politics: Perversion, Repression, or Subversion? Or Masks and/as Master-y -- Feminist Politics & Postmodern Seductions: Madonna & the Struggle for Political Articulation -- Seduction, Control, & the Search for Authenticity: Madonna's Truth or Dare -- Don't Go for Second Sex, Baby! -- The Political Economy of Postmodernism: Madonna as Star-Commodity -- Metatextual Girl: → patriarchy → postmodernism → power → money → Madonna -- "Material Girl": The Effacements of Postmodern Culture -- The Distance Between Me & You: Madonna & Celestial Navigation (or You Can Be My Lucky Star)
Biography
Cathy Schwichtenberg
