A sunken dream: music and the gendering of nostalgia in Life on Mars
(2010)
Book Chapter
Outputs (4)
Double O agencies: Femininity, post-feminism and the female spy in Casino Royale (2010)
Book Chapter
Casino Royale was widely marketed and received as a 're-booting' of the Bond franchise, with a concomitant reinvention of the Bond girl for a post-feminist world. This essay critiques this claim, identifying important continuities between the film's... Read More about Double O agencies: Femininity, post-feminism and the female spy in Casino Royale.
Scourging the abject body: the television make-over show and the reconstruction of femininity under neoliberalism (2010)
Book Chapter
The television makeover show has become an important site for the discursive re-inscription of femininity as a fluid condition requiring continuous work and self-modification in order that it can be 'held together', and in which social idenity, the b... Read More about Scourging the abject body: the television make-over show and the reconstruction of femininity under neoliberalism.
Keeping the OE real: Kombi nation, Kiwi identity and the New Zealand road movie (2010)
Journal Article