Resist and persist : essays on social revolution in 21st century narratives / edited by Amanda Firestone and Leisa A. Clark.

Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (viii, 204 pages.)

Subjects:

Television programs -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Social problems on television.
Television programs -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Contents:

"They're already here. You're next" / Amanda Restone. Jessica Jones, film noir and #metoo / Caroline Hovanec
Digital activism and storytelling: exploring the radical potential of the #metoo movement / Megan Thompson
The perils of performance : performing the politics of respectability as resistance in Get out / Allsha Menzles
He did Nazi that coming : remix, resistance and Richard Spencer's face / Jason Buel and Kristl Kouchakji
"A society on the verge of a nervous breakdown" : The death of Stalin, historical film and resistance to Trump's America / Sabrina Mittermeir
"The only way to support a revolution is to make your own" / Amanda Firestone
The trial of King Killmonger : theorizing the rage of a third culture kid as resistance / Kwasu David Tembo
Voiceless yet vocal : speaking desire in The shape of water / Jeana Jorgensen
"Who tells your story?" the power of Hamilton's fantastic re-telling of American history / Amnada K. Leblanc
"Promise me we'll do this together" : trauma and the restorative power of the feminine in Frozen and Moana / JessIca Stanley
Real curves in the Revolution : body politics, unruly bodies and comedy as resistance / S. Katherine Cooper, Brittany M. Harder and Corinne E. Fanta
"You celebrated the small victories, and you dreamed of the big ones to come" / Amanda Firestone. "A one woman riot" : the voice of the #Icantkeepquiet choir / Elizabeth J. DIckhut
Documentary agitation and outreach : the rhetorical networks of resistance in popular nonfiction film / Chandra A. Maldonado
Gillard of Thrones : using popular culture to resist misogyny / Ana Stevenson
Come from away : resistance in the 2017 film Wonder woman / Mary F. Pharr
"We are the spark that will light the fire" : hope, the cyclical pattern of resistance and concrete dystopia in Disney's The last Jedi / Annika Gonnermann.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.

Contributor:

Clark, Leisa A., 1968- editor.
Firestone, Amanda, 1982- editor.
ProQuest ebook central

ISBN:

9781476639826 (electronic bk.)
1476639825 (electronic bk.)
1476676674
9781476676678

Publisher Number:

40030099224

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.

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