Latter-day Screens : Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism /
Brenda R. Weber examines the ways in which the mediation of Mormonism through film, TV, blogs, YouTube videos, and memoirs functions as a means through which to understand conversations surrounding gender, sexuality, spirituality, capitalism, justice, and individualism in the United States.
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Past as prologue. Latter-day screens and history
- Introduction. "Well, we are a curiosity, ain't we?": mediated Mormonism
- Mormonism as meme and analytic: spiritual neoliberalism, image management, and transmediated salvation
- The Mormon glow: the raced and gendered implications of spectacular visibility
- The epistemology of the (televised, polygamous) closet: the cultural politics of mediated Mormonism and the promises of the American Dream
- Polygamy USA: visibility, charismatic evil, and gender progressivism
- Gender trouble in happy valley: choice, happy affect, and the Mormon feminist housewives
- "Pray (and obey) the gay away": conscience and the queer politics of desire
- Conclusion: afterthoughts and latter days
- Epilogue. Mormons on my mind, or, everything I ever needed to know about hegemony I learned in Mesa, Arizona
- Notes
- References
- Media archive
- Index.