Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls write by Kim Toffoletti. This book was released on 2007-08-29. Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing a lively and accessible style to a complex subject, "Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls" explores the idea of the 'posthuman' and the ways in which it is represented in popular culture. Toffoletti explores images of the posthuman body from goth-rocker Marilyn Manson's digitally manipulated self-portraits to the famous TDK 'baby' adverts, and from the work of artist Patricia Piccinini to the curiously 'plastic' form of the ubiquitous Barbie doll, controversially rescued here from her negative image. Drawing on the work of thinkers including Baudrillard, Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti, "Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls" explores the nature of the human - and its ambiguous gender - in an age of biotechnologies and digital worlds.
Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls
Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls write by Kim Toffoletti. This book was released on 2007-08-29. Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing a lively and accessible style to a complex subject, "Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls" explores the idea of the 'posthuman' and the ways in which it is represented in popular culture. Toffoletti explores images of the posthuman body from goth-rocker Marilyn Manson's digitally manipulated self-portraits to the famous TDK 'baby' adverts, and from the work of artist Patricia Piccinini to the curiously 'plastic' form of the ubiquitous Barbie doll, controversially rescued here from her negative image. Drawing on the work of thinkers including Baudrillard, Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti, "Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls" explores the nature of the human - and its ambiguous gender - in an age of biotechnologies and digital worlds.
Barbie Culture
Barbie Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Barbie Culture write by Mary F Rogers. This book was released on 2009-12-04. Barbie Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book uses one of the most popular accessories of childhood, the Barbie doll, to explain key aspects of cultural meaning. Some readings would see Barbie as reproducing ethnicity and gender in a particularly coarse and damaging way - a cultural icon of racism and sexism. Rogers develops a broader, more challenging picture. She shows how the cultural meaning of Barbie is more ambiguous than the narrow, appearance-dominated model that is attributed to the doll. For a start, Barbie′s sexual identity is not clear-cut. Similarly her class situation is ambiguous. But all interpretations agree that, with her enormous range of lifestyle `accessories′, Barbie exists to consume. Her body is the perfect metaphor of modern times: plastic, standardized and oozing fake sincerity.
Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema
Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema write by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald. This book was released on 2017-02-09. Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The child has existed in cinema since the Lumière Brothers filmed their babies having messy meals in Lyons, but it is only quite recently that scholars have paid serious attention to her/his presence on screen. Scholarly discussion is now of the highest quality and of interest to anyone concerned not only with the extent to which adult cultural conversations invoke the figure of the child, but also to those interested in exploring how film cultures can shift questions of agency and experience in relation to subjectivity. Childhood and Nation in World Cinema recognizes that the range of films and scholarship is now sufficiently extensive to invoke the world cinema mantra of pluri-vocal and pluri-central attention and interpretation. At the same time, the importance of the child in figuring ideas of nationhood is an undiminished tic in adult cultural and social consciousness. Either the child on film provokes claims on the nation or the nation claims the child. Given the waning star of national film studies, and the widely held and serious concerns over the status of the nation as a meaningful cultural unit, the point here is not to assume some extraordinary pre-social geopolitical empathy of child and political entity. Rather, the present collection observes how and why and whether the cinematic child is indeed aligned to concepts of modern nationhood, to concerns of the State, and to geo-political organizational themes and precepts.
Deconstructing Dolls
Deconstructing Dolls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deconstructing Dolls write by Miriam Forman-Brunell. This book was released on 2021-03-03. Deconstructing Dolls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent decades, emerging scholarship in the field of girlhood studies has led to a particular interest in dolls as sources of documentary evidence. Deconstructing Dolls pushes the boundaries of doll studies by expanding the definition of dolls, ages of doll players, sites of play, research methods, and application of theory. By utilizing a variety of new approaches, this collected volume seeks to understand the historical and contemporary significance of dolls and girlhood play, particularly as they relate to social meanings in the lives of girls and young women across race, age, time, and culture.
