This volume brings together an international array of contributors to analyse Greta Gerwig's unprecedented success, Barbie (2023), exploring how a film released in a moment of industrial crisis for Hollywood became the highest-grossing film directed or co-directed by a woman.
Uniting scholars from Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, France, Turkey, the UK, and the USA, this volume provides a set of essays that reflect the complexities of what is, in many ways, a fable for our times. Greta Gerwig's Barbie: Popular Culture, Cinema, and Gender opens with a chapter on the current state of the film industry. Further topics include: the treatment of American girlhood; fashion and feminism; the auteur director; post-indie cinema; queer identities; masculinity; the politics of race, class and gender; contemporary feminisms; consumerism; and the ecology of plastic. As such, the book offers a detailed and nuanced perspective on a benchmark film, produced and distributed by an industry in crisis––the brainchild of a significant director whose star is on the rise.
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Film & VideoTable of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction: “Barbie Land,” Contextualizing Greta Gerwig’s Barbie
- Part One A Fragmented World: The Cultural Moment
- 1 The Barbenheimer Phenomenon and the Post-Pandemic Streaming-Era Movie Industry
- 2 The Americanization of Feminine Culture: Female Authorship and the Culture Industry from Alcott to Barbie
- 3 Fake Feminism and Strident Pink Spectacle: Fashion, Celebrity Culture, and the Marketing of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie
- Part Two The Greta Gerwig Touch: A Contemporary Auteur
- 4 Greta Gerwig: From Indiewood to Conglomerate Hollywood—New Iterations of the Contemporary Auteur
- 5 Barbie, Irony, and Post-Indie Cinema
- 6 “Authentically Artificial”: Embodying the Self in Barbie
- Part Three Identity
- 7 Queer Barbie, Weird Barbie, and Greta Gerwig’s Many Queer Kens
- 8 “What Was I Made For?” and “I’m Just Ken”: The Musical Binary of Barbie
- 9 “Barbieist vs. Oppenheimerist”: A Gender-Based Reception Study of Barbie in Turkey
- 10 Deeper into Ken: The Accessibility of Ryan Gosling
- Part Four The Polemics of Barbie
- 11 Barbie, Feminism, and Consumerism: An Incoherent Combination
- 12 The Politics of “Always” and “Never”: The Monologue Heard Around the World—Race, Class, and Gender in Barbie
- 13 Barbie, the Feminist Mattel Ad
- 14 Plastic, Kitsch: Ecologies of Barbie Land
- Afterword
- Appendices
- Greta Gerwig: Biography
- Barbie (dir. Greta
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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