Debra Ferreday
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 642888 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Debra Ferreday |
| NOMBRES | Debra |
| APELLIDO | Ferreday |
| FIRMA | FERREDAY D |
| AFILIACIONES | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7540-1034 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Rethinking marginality in new queer television
Rethinking marginality in new queer television is a self-reflection on how this Special Issue of Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture took form. Throughout this editorial, we examine trends in current queer theory and reflect on the changes occurring in both the depictions of queer representations and the dissemination of television itself. We conclude by offering a survey into the variety of television that is covered by the issue, from Pose…
From Dorian’s closet to Elektra’s trunk
In recent years, queer identities, lives and stories have been integrated into popular culture to an extent that would have been unimaginable until relatively recently. A key part of this attempt to make sense of queerness in the present is the quest for a shared queer past. A trend in recent film and television has been the revisiting and reclaiming of stories that have been erased from mainstream media and from official historical accounts. Thi…
No one is trash, no one is garbage, no one is cancelled
Historically, Drag Race has mobilised stories about homophobia, family violence, racism and femmephobia that produce drag as a technology of recovery: a means of rising above trauma, in line with media scholarship on the centrality of personal trauma narratives in reality TV. Queer scholars have argued that this imperative to tell positive stories silences more melancholic, ‘negative’ voices; of the tension between the need to speak of ‘damage’, …
Only the Bad Gyal could do this
In July 2015, Rihanna released a seven-minute long video for her new single, entitled 'Bitch Better Have My Money' (more widely known as 'BBHMM'), the violent imagery in which would divide feminist media commentators for its representation of graphic and sexualised violence against a white couple. The resulting commentary would become the focus of much popular and academic feminist debate over the intersectional gendered and racialised politics o…
Investigating 'fame-inism
This special section of Feminist Theory emerged from the interdisciplinary workshop ‘The Politics of Popular Culture’, organised by the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies at Lancaster University in March 2015 as part of Hear Me Roar, Lancaster’s first feminist arts festival. This festival brought together diverse performances and audiences embracing very different approaches to and understandings of feminism. The shows ranged from the Rose The…
Game of Thrones, Rape Culture and Feminist Fandom
Throughout its run, HBO's adaptation of George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire book series, retitled Game of Thrones (GoT), has attracted controversy for its depiction of nudity and graphic sex and violence. But a particular recent scene, in which a brother rapes his sister, caused outrage in media and fan commentary. This article considers the scene in question, and feminist responses to it, in the context of wider cultural debates about rape…
The Feminine Art of Failure
This paper asks: in post-postfeminist times constitutes a feminist reading of the popular, and in particular potential futures are implied by the current 'return' to canonical feminist practices of reading, and how might these apparently utopian futures work to silence certain critical voices emanating from within the sphere of the popular - particularly queer and feminine voices? In answer to this question, it proposes a re-examining of contempo…
A Waif's Progress
This paper draws on a case study of media images of the British model Kate Moss to think through questions of affect, ideology, and pleasure in relation to fashion imagery. The question of whether and to what extent media images affect spectators is central to contemporary feminist media studies. The “turn to affect” has revitalised the debate about the extent to which media images can be held accountable for oppressive effects on the spectator's…
Anorexia and Abjection
This article draws on a review of Megan Warin’s 2010 book, Abject Relations: Everyday Worlds of Anorexia, to discuss the ways in which a feminist ethnographic approach might disrupt dominant cultural narratives of eating disorders and embodiment. My argument draws on feminist work on figuration and ‘body image’ to discuss how the anorexic body becomes a figure of abjection, both in media images and in popular feminist discourse. I examine how cul…
Becoming deer
Reading Disorders
This article examines the representation of cybersuicide in the popular media. Taking as its starting point two cases, those of Abraham Biggs and the so‐called “Bridgend suicide cult”, it analyses the moral panics that circulate around online suicide to suggest that the representation of youth suicide involves a mobilisation of “the death of hope” in both news reports and academic theorising, which is typical of media effects models more generall…
Introduction
Freaky or fabulous? Michael Jackson in Balmain
In September 2008, a fashion show for the previously moribund but recently resurrected house of Balmain attracted huge attention in the popular media. To a nostalgic soundtrack of 1980s music, the
Commentary And Criticism
Between March and December 2008 Jane Arthurs was co-editor, with Usha Zacharias, of the Commentary and Criticism Section of this journal, which included topical short essays themed around issues of significance to feminist media studies either from a methodological, critical or political point of view. This article covered the politics of the ‘affective turn’ in critical theory
Showing the girl
This paper examines the cultural phenomenon of `new burlesque', a subculture in which young women take part in striptease performances which invoke the iconic styles and routines associated with mid-20th century cabaret. By reading burlesque websites alongside the celebrity culture and advertising, the article examines how the retro styles of dress and make-up associated with this subculture have circulated through a range of media sites as an al…
Unspeakable Bodies
In this article, I explore the extent to which the `virtual community' has been imagined as coming into being through acts of erasure that create unmarked citizens. In contrast, `pro-ana' websites that celebrate eating disorders aim to create a community in which a sense of collectivity is constituted precisely through the body, specifically the anorexic body. By encouraging members to speak out, these communities aim to subvert the economy of di…
Unspeakable Bodies
In this article, I explore the extent to which the `virtual community' has been imagined as coming into being through acts of erasure that create unmarked citizens. In contrast, `pro-ana' websites that celebrate eating disorders aim to create a community in which a sense of collectivity is constituted precisely through the body, specifically the anorexic body. By encouraging members to speak out, these communities aim to subvert the economy of di…
Game of Thrones, Rape Culture and Feminist Fandom
Throughout its run, HBO's adaptation of George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire book series, retitled Game of Thrones (GoT), has attracted controversy for its depiction of nudity and graphic sex and violence. But a particular recent scene, in which a brother rapes his sister, caused outrage in media and fan commentary. This article considers the scene in question, and feminist responses to it, in the context of wider cultural debates about rape…
Showing the girl
This paper examines the cultural phenomenon of `new burlesque', a subculture in which young women take part in striptease performances which invoke the iconic styles and routines associated with mid-20th century cabaret. By reading burlesque websites alongside the celebrity culture and advertising, the article examines how the retro styles of dress and make-up associated with this subculture have circulated through a range of media sites as an al…
Investigating 'fame-inism
This special section of Feminist Theory emerged from the interdisciplinary workshop ‘The Politics of Popular Culture’, organised by the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies at Lancaster University in March 2015 as part of Hear Me Roar, Lancaster’s first feminist arts festival. This festival brought together diverse performances and audiences embracing very different approaches to and understandings of feminism. The shows ranged from the Rose The…
Commentary And Criticism
Between March and December 2008 Jane Arthurs was co-editor, with Usha Zacharias, of the Commentary and Criticism Section of this journal, which included topical short essays themed around issues of significance to feminist media studies either from a methodological, critical or political point of view. This article covered the politics of the ‘affective turn’ in critical theory
No one is trash, no one is garbage, no one is cancelled
Historically, Drag Race has mobilised stories about homophobia, family violence, racism and femmephobia that produce drag as a technology of recovery: a means of rising above trauma, in line with media scholarship on the centrality of personal trauma narratives in reality TV. Queer scholars have argued that this imperative to tell positive stories silences more melancholic, ‘negative’ voices; of the tension between the need to speak of ‘damage’, …
Only the Bad Gyal could do this
In July 2015, Rihanna released a seven-minute long video for her new single, entitled 'Bitch Better Have My Money' (more widely known as 'BBHMM'), the violent imagery in which would divide feminist media commentators for its representation of graphic and sexualised violence against a white couple. The resulting commentary would become the focus of much popular and academic feminist debate over the intersectional gendered and racialised politics o…
The Feminine Art of Failure
This paper asks: in post-postfeminist times constitutes a feminist reading of the popular, and in particular potential futures are implied by the current 'return' to canonical feminist practices of reading, and how might these apparently utopian futures work to silence certain critical voices emanating from within the sphere of the popular - particularly queer and feminine voices? In answer to this question, it proposes a re-examining of contempo…
A Waif's Progress
This paper draws on a case study of media images of the British model Kate Moss to think through questions of affect, ideology, and pleasure in relation to fashion imagery. The question of whether and to what extent media images affect spectators is central to contemporary feminist media studies. The “turn to affect” has revitalised the debate about the extent to which media images can be held accountable for oppressive effects on the spectator's…
Becoming deer
Freaky or fabulous? Michael Jackson in Balmain
In September 2008, a fashion show for the previously moribund but recently resurrected house of Balmain attracted huge attention in the popular media. To a nostalgic soundtrack of 1980s music, the
Unspeakable Bodies
In this article, I explore the extent to which the `virtual community' has been imagined as coming into being through acts of erasure that create unmarked citizens. In contrast, `pro-ana' websites that celebrate eating disorders aim to create a community in which a sense of collectivity is constituted precisely through the body, specifically the anorexic body. By encouraging members to speak out, these communities aim to subvert the economy of di…
Commentary And Criticism
Between March and December 2008 Jane Arthurs was co-editor, with Usha Zacharias, of the Commentary and Criticism Section of this journal, which included topical short essays themed around issues of significance to feminist media studies either from a methodological, critical or political point of view. This article covered the politics of the ‘affective turn’ in critical theory
Showing the girl
This paper examines the cultural phenomenon of `new burlesque', a subculture in which young women take part in striptease performances which invoke the iconic styles and routines associated with mid-20th century cabaret. By reading burlesque websites alongside the celebrity culture and advertising, the article examines how the retro styles of dress and make-up associated with this subculture have circulated through a range of media sites as an al…
Reading Disorders
This article examines the representation of cybersuicide in the popular media. Taking as its starting point two cases, those of Abraham Biggs and the so‐called “Bridgend suicide cult”, it analyses the moral panics that circulate around online suicide to suggest that the representation of youth suicide involves a mobilisation of “the death of hope” in both news reports and academic theorising, which is typical of media effects models more generall…
Introduction
Freaky or fabulous? Michael Jackson in Balmain
In September 2008, a fashion show for the previously moribund but recently resurrected house of Balmain attracted huge attention in the popular media. To a nostalgic soundtrack of 1980s music, the
Becoming deer
Anorexia and Abjection
This article draws on a review of Megan Warin’s 2010 book, Abject Relations: Everyday Worlds of Anorexia, to discuss the ways in which a feminist ethnographic approach might disrupt dominant cultural narratives of eating disorders and embodiment. My argument draws on feminist work on figuration and ‘body image’ to discuss how the anorexic body becomes a figure of abjection, both in media images and in popular feminist discourse. I examine how cul…
A Waif's Progress
This paper draws on a case study of media images of the British model Kate Moss to think through questions of affect, ideology, and pleasure in relation to fashion imagery. The question of whether and to what extent media images affect spectators is central to contemporary feminist media studies. The “turn to affect” has revitalised the debate about the extent to which media images can be held accountable for oppressive effects on the spectator's…
The Feminine Art of Failure
This paper asks: in post-postfeminist times constitutes a feminist reading of the popular, and in particular potential futures are implied by the current 'return' to canonical feminist practices of reading, and how might these apparently utopian futures work to silence certain critical voices emanating from within the sphere of the popular - particularly queer and feminine voices? In answer to this question, it proposes a re-examining of contempo…
Game of Thrones, Rape Culture and Feminist Fandom
Throughout its run, HBO's adaptation of George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire book series, retitled Game of Thrones (GoT), has attracted controversy for its depiction of nudity and graphic sex and violence. But a particular recent scene, in which a brother rapes his sister, caused outrage in media and fan commentary. This article considers the scene in question, and feminist responses to it, in the context of wider cultural debates about rape…
Only the Bad Gyal could do this
In July 2015, Rihanna released a seven-minute long video for her new single, entitled 'Bitch Better Have My Money' (more widely known as 'BBHMM'), the violent imagery in which would divide feminist media commentators for its representation of graphic and sexualised violence against a white couple. The resulting commentary would become the focus of much popular and academic feminist debate over the intersectional gendered and racialised politics o…
Investigating 'fame-inism
This special section of Feminist Theory emerged from the interdisciplinary workshop ‘The Politics of Popular Culture’, organised by the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies at Lancaster University in March 2015 as part of Hear Me Roar, Lancaster’s first feminist arts festival. This festival brought together diverse performances and audiences embracing very different approaches to and understandings of feminism. The shows ranged from the Rose The…
No one is trash, no one is garbage, no one is cancelled
Historically, Drag Race has mobilised stories about homophobia, family violence, racism and femmephobia that produce drag as a technology of recovery: a means of rising above trauma, in line with media scholarship on the centrality of personal trauma narratives in reality TV. Queer scholars have argued that this imperative to tell positive stories silences more melancholic, ‘negative’ voices; of the tension between the need to speak of ‘damage’, …
Rethinking marginality in new queer television
Rethinking marginality in new queer television is a self-reflection on how this Special Issue of Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture took form. Throughout this editorial, we examine trends in current queer theory and reflect on the changes occurring in both the depictions of queer representations and the dissemination of television itself. We conclude by offering a survey into the variety of television that is covered by the issue, from Pose…
From Dorian’s closet to Elektra’s trunk
In recent years, queer identities, lives and stories have been integrated into popular culture to an extent that would have been unimaginable until relatively recently. A key part of this attempt to make sense of queerness in the present is the quest for a shared queer past. A trend in recent film and television has been the revisiting and reclaiming of stories that have been erased from mainstream media and from official historical accounts. Thi…
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