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Celebrity and the feminist blockbuster / Anthea Taylor.

Author/creator Taylor, Anthea, 1972- author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Copyright Notice ©2016
Descriptionx, 306 pages ; 22 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Introduction -- 'Blockbuster' Feminism and Celebrification -- The 1960s/1970s Blockbuster and Ongoing Feminist Stardom -- Helen Gurley Brown : Prototypical Celebrity Feminism, Cultural Intermediaries, and Agency -- Betty Friedan : The 'Mother' of Feminism, Self-fashioning, and the Celebrity Mystique -- Gremaine Greer : 'The Star Feminism Had to Have', Unruliness, and Adaptable Celebrity -- The New Bestsellers, Online Media, and Branding Feminism in the Twenty-first Century -- Naomi Wolf : Twitter and the Transformation of of 'Third wave' Celebrity -- Sheryl Sandberg and Roxane Gay : The Limits and Possibilities of Contemporary Blockbuster Feminism -- Amy Poehler and Lena Dunham : Celebrity Memoirs, Comedy, and Digital Activism -- Conclusion : The Future of Celebrity Feminism - Contemporary Celebrity Culture, the Blockbuster, and Feminist Star Studies -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN1137373334 hardback
ISBN9781137373335 hardback
ISBNeBook

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