Donna Peberdy
Biographic Data
| ID | 290538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donna Peberdy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donna |
| FAMILY NAME | Peberdy |
| SIGNATURE | PEBERDY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southampton Solent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1925-433X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Screening sexual violence: Towards a complex continuum of representation in short films made by women
This article examines how short films can respond to, reimagine and reframe the representation of sexual violence. Drawing on a multi-method study – including the cataloguing of a substantial dataset of short films made by women, close textual analysis, participatory conversations with women filmmakers and the development of a curated educational web resource – it explores how filmmakers negotiate form and content to produce nuanced, ethically at…
Screening Sex: A short discussion
The development of porn studies has been aided by the establishment of a range of academic networks in the early part of the twenty-first century. In this interview Donna Peberdy and Darren Kerr discuss the establishment of the Screening Sex network in the UK and its relationship to developing studies of pornography and the screening of sex more widely
Pretty People: Movie Stars of the 1990s
In the 1990s, American civil society got upended and reordered as many social, cultural, political, and economic institutions were changed forever. Pretty People examines a wide range of Hollywood icons who reflect how stardom in that decade was transformed as the nation itself was signaling significant changes to familiar ideas about gender, race, ethnicity, age, class, sexuality, and nationality. Such actors as Denzel Washington, Andy Garcia, H…
Sorry I couldn't be here: Performative Celebrity Meltdown and Para-Stardom
The star persona is a highly crafted and carefully managed identity. Stars often call attention to the impact of this construction on their own sense of being, acknowledging a difference between their public and private self. It is evident in Cary Grant’s oft-quoted quip ‘Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant’ or Marilyn Monroe’s admission ‘I never wanted to be Marilyn – it just happened’. Such comments indicate self-aware…
Playing with the self: Celebrity Autoerotic Asphyxiation
Celebrity sexual scandal has long attracted the attention of the popular media and is a motivating force in the construction of celebrity identity. Its aftermath is often carefully stage-managed by agents, publicists and promoters, but always mediated and beyond the control of the celebrity. It is the relationship between celebrity and a particular sexual transgression – autoerotic asphyxiation (AEA) – that is our focus here in terms of how celeb…
From Wimps to Wild Men: Bipolar Masculinity and the Paradoxical Performances of Tom Cruise
This article examines the performative and paradoxical relationship between masculine opposites-hard and soft, hypermasculinity and hypomasculinity-as presented through the figures of the Wild Man and Wimp. Rather than shifting from hard to soft at different historical moments, as has been argued by scholars such as Susan Jeffords, Fred Pfeil, as well as poet and activist Robert Bly, the article suggests that masculinity is bipolar, simultaneousl…
Sorry I couldn't be here: Performative Celebrity Meltdown and Para-Stardom
The star persona is a highly crafted and carefully managed identity. Stars often call attention to the impact of this construction on their own sense of being, acknowledging a difference between their public and private self. It is evident in Cary Grant’s oft-quoted quip ‘Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant’ or Marilyn Monroe’s admission ‘I never wanted to be Marilyn – it just happened’. Such comments indicate self-aware…
From Wimps to Wild Men: Bipolar Masculinity and the Paradoxical Performances of Tom Cruise
This article examines the performative and paradoxical relationship between masculine opposites-hard and soft, hypermasculinity and hypomasculinity-as presented through the figures of the Wild Man and Wimp. Rather than shifting from hard to soft at different historical moments, as has been argued by scholars such as Susan Jeffords, Fred Pfeil, as well as poet and activist Robert Bly, the article suggests that masculinity is bipolar, simultaneousl…
From Wimps to Wild Men: Bipolar Masculinity and the Paradoxical Performances of Tom Cruise
This article examines the performative and paradoxical relationship between masculine opposites-hard and soft, hypermasculinity and hypomasculinity-as presented through the figures of the Wild Man and Wimp. Rather than shifting from hard to soft at different historical moments, as has been argued by scholars such as Susan Jeffords, Fred Pfeil, as well as poet and activist Robert Bly, the article suggests that masculinity is bipolar, simultaneousl…
Playing with the self: Celebrity Autoerotic Asphyxiation
Celebrity sexual scandal has long attracted the attention of the popular media and is a motivating force in the construction of celebrity identity. Its aftermath is often carefully stage-managed by agents, publicists and promoters, but always mediated and beyond the control of the celebrity. It is the relationship between celebrity and a particular sexual transgression – autoerotic asphyxiation (AEA) – that is our focus here in terms of how celeb…
Sorry I couldn't be here: Performative Celebrity Meltdown and Para-Stardom
The star persona is a highly crafted and carefully managed identity. Stars often call attention to the impact of this construction on their own sense of being, acknowledging a difference between their public and private self. It is evident in Cary Grant’s oft-quoted quip ‘Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant’ or Marilyn Monroe’s admission ‘I never wanted to be Marilyn – it just happened’. Such comments indicate self-aware…
Pretty People: Movie Stars of the 1990s
In the 1990s, American civil society got upended and reordered as many social, cultural, political, and economic institutions were changed forever. Pretty People examines a wide range of Hollywood icons who reflect how stardom in that decade was transformed as the nation itself was signaling significant changes to familiar ideas about gender, race, ethnicity, age, class, sexuality, and nationality. Such actors as Denzel Washington, Andy Garcia, H…
Screening Sex: A short discussion
The development of porn studies has been aided by the establishment of a range of academic networks in the early part of the twenty-first century. In this interview Donna Peberdy and Darren Kerr discuss the establishment of the Screening Sex network in the UK and its relationship to developing studies of pornography and the screening of sex more widely
Screening sexual violence: Towards a complex continuum of representation in short films made by women
This article examines how short films can respond to, reimagine and reframe the representation of sexual violence. Drawing on a multi-method study – including the cataloguing of a substantial dataset of short films made by women, close textual analysis, participatory conversations with women filmmakers and the development of a curated educational web resource – it explores how filmmakers negotiate form and content to produce nuanced, ethically at…
Cinema and Media Studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Negotiation (2 works) · Performative utterance (2 works)