‘Doing Her Best With What She’s Got’: Authorship, Irony, and Mediating Feminist Identities in Lena Dunham’s Girls
| Autor: | Wallis Seaton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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White (horse)
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Identity (social science) 050801 communication & media studies Gender studies Feminism Irony Negotiation Individualism 0508 media and communications 050903 gender studies Social media Narrative Sociology 0509 other social sciences media_common |
| Zdroj: | Reading Lena Dunham’s Girls ISBN: 9783319529707 |
| Popis: | Considering how Dunham pushes the boundaries of current debates through her engagement with past and present discourses of feminism and postfeminism, this chapter positions her mediated identity within discourses of individualism and neoiberalism. Seaton’s analysis explores how Dunham’s creative outputs and social media engagements communicate a problematic feminist position through a white, privileged, and ironic lens, but argues that her self-reflexive narratives offer a new discursive space for feminism, on and off-screen. Focusing on the articulations between Dunham’s ‘real’ self and fictional selves in Girls, as well as her use of commercialised sites such as Instagram and Lenny Letter, this chapter draws attention to Dunham’s (re)negotiation of such mediated spaces, offering a revision of current understandings of feminism as shaped by celebrity. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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