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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Autor principal: Weber, Brenda R., 1964- (Autor)
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
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Taula de continguts:
  • 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.