Koivunen / Unknown / Kyrölä The power of vulnerability

Mobilising affect in feminist, queer and anti-racist media cultures
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3311-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

This collection presents a critical and historicising investigation of contemporary debates on affect, power and agency in queer, feminist and antiracist media cultures. Through a range of in-depth case studies, the book explores the potential as well as the constraints of vulnerability as a new political language.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Koivunen, Anu

Kyrölä, Katariina

Ryberg, Ingrid

Kyrola, Katariina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures
1 Vulnerability as a political language – Anu Koivunen, Katariina Kyrölä and Ingrid Ryberg
Part I: Vulnerability as a battleground
2 Negotiating vulnerability in the trigger warning debates – Katariina Kyrölä
3 Trigger happy: from content warning to censorship – Jack Halberstam
4 Feminist hurt/feminism hurts – Sara Ahmed
Part II: Vulnerability and visibility
5 Little Pink: white fragility and black social death – Ylva Habel
6 Visibility and vulnerability: negotiating transgender representation and encounters with translatina worlds in The Salt Mines and Wildness – Laura Horak
7 White vulnerability and the politics of reproduction in Top of the Lake: China Girl – Johanna Gondouin, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert and Ingrid Ryberg
8 Spectacularly wounded: white male vulnerability as heterosexual fantasy – Susanna Paasonen
Part III: Vulnerability and cultural policy
9 The invulnerable body of colour: the failure and success of a Swedish Film Diversity initiative – Mara Lee Gerden
10 Naming, shaming, framing? The ambivalence of queer visibility in audio-visual archives – Dagmar Brunow
11 Abortion prevention: lesbian citizenship and filmmaking in Sweden in the 1970s – Ingrid Ryberg
12 The caring nation: Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves as a reparative fantasy – Anu Koivunen
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anu Koivunen is Professor of Cinema Studies (Department of Media Studies) at Stockholm University, Sweden
Katariina Kyrölä is Lecturer in Gender Studies at Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Ingrid Ryberg is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at Gothenburg University, Sweden