Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema
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Working Girls investigates the thematic concerns of contemporary Hollywood cinema, and its ambivalent articulation of women as both active, and defined by sexual performance, asking whether new Hollywood cinema has responded to feminism and contemporary sexual identities. Whether analysing the rise of films centred around female friendships, or the entrance of pop stars such as Whitney Houston and Madonna into film, Working Girls is an authoritative investigation of the presence of women both as film makers and actors in contemporary mainstream cinema. Booknews Tasker (film and cultural studies, U. of Sunderland) investigates contemporary cinema's complex relationship with gender and sexual identities in the wake of feminism, and explores four versions of the working woman common in Hollywood films--spunky heroines of action movies, female police and FBI agents, the singer as movie star, and sharp-shooting cowgirls of the new Westerns. She also discusses the increasing prominence of women as producers and directors. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
List of figuresList of contributorsShufflePreface: curvatures in space-time-truth1Pt. 1Embodied knowledge and virtual space1Embodied knowledge and virtual space: gender, nature and history152The digital unconscious303Physical, psychological and virtual realities45Pt. 2Nature and virtue4Nature = x: notes on Spinozist ethics635Embodying virtue: a buddhist perspective on virtual reality766Redesigning the present88Pt. 3Embodying truth7Hubble telescope: the artist in the eye of the storm1058A more convivial perspective system for artists1099Ancient oaks: a one-act play12210Culture, technology and subjectivity: an 'ethical' analysis132Pt. 4When becoming meets becoming11The dream garden: notes on a virtual idyll14912The 'return-beat': 'curved perceptions' in music and dance15713'Peak practices': the production and regulation of ecstatic bodies168Pt. 5Between saying and showing14[Sait]18115+ and [actual symbol not reproducible]19616PDF: the digital hostess20617Messages from Sir Arthur and the Rev. Bill213Index
