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1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 23 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Em Eldridge. |
| Summary |
In this poignant collection, Alice Bolin examines iconic American works from the essays of Joan Didion and James Baldwin to Twin Peaks , Britney Spears, and Serial , illuminating the widespread obsession with women who are abused, killed, and disenfranchised, and whose bodies (dead and alive) are used as props to bolster men's stories. Smart and accessible, thoughtful and heartfelt, Bolin investigates the implications of our cultural fixations, and her own role as a consumer and creator. Bolin chronicles her life in Los Angeles, dissects the Noir, revisits her own coming of age, and analyzes stories of witches and werewolves, both appreciating and challenging the narratives we construct and absorb every day. Dead Girls begins by exploring the trope of dead women in fiction, and ends by interrogating the more complex dilemma of living women - both the persistent injustices they suffer and the oppression that white women help perpetrate. Reminiscent of the piercing insight of Rebecca Solnit and the critical skill of Hilton Als, Bolin constructs a sharp, perceptive, and revelatory dialogue on the portrayal of women in media and their roles in our culture. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Women in popular culture -- United States.
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Women in mass media.
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Death in popular culture -- United States.
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Death in mass media.
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| Added Author |
Eldridge, Em, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9780062880529 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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0062880527 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12126528 |
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