H. Steinhoff

Gebundenes Buch

Transforming Bodies

Makeovers and Monstrosities in American Culture

Beschreibung

At the turn of the twenty-first century, American media abound with images and narratives of bodily transformations. At the crossroads of American, cultural, literary, media, gender, queer, disability and governmentality studies, the book presents a timely intervention into critical debates on body transformations and contemporary makeover culture.

Autor

Heike Steinhoff is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. Her main areas of research are gender studies, theories and representations of the body, and sexuality in American culture and cultural theory. She is the author of Queer Buccaneers: (De)Constructing Boundaries in the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN Film Series.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-49378-1
• 2015 edition
• Seitenzahl: 267
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9781137493781
• ISBN-10: 113749378X
• Artikelnr.: 42232314

Rezensionen

"The book is certainly a refreshing read for scholars interested in current trends of American cultural and media studies and, more specifically, the sociology of gendered bodies. But the focus on intermediality and the numerous popular cultural examples hold an interest for lay audiences too ... . Steinhoff's book allows us a glimpse at collective fantasies of postapocalyptic reality acted out on the surface of transforming bodies." (Anna Kérchy, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 23 (2), 2017)