Women on Screen

SHELLEY COBB Teaching Fellow in Literature and Film at the University of Southampton, UK KATHERINE FARRIMOND Doctoral student at Newcastle University, UK HELEN FENWICK Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at Newcastle University, UK LISA FUNNELL Ph.D. graduate in Film Studies from Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada STAePHANIE GENZ Senior Lecturer in Media and Culture at Edge Hill University, UK ANNA GETHING Part-time Lecturer in English at Bath Spa University, UK KATHRINA GLITRE Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of the West of England, UK SARAH GILLIGAN Lecturer in Media at Hartlepool College of FE, UK LISA PURSE Lecturer in Film in the Department of Film, Theatre& Television at the University of Reading, UK ANGELA SMITH Lecturer in Language and Culture at the University of Sunderland, UK LINDSAY STEENBERG Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK BRENDA R. WEBER Associate Professor in Gender Studies at Indiana University, USA ROSIE WHITE Senior Lecturer in English at Northumbria University, UK MARTIN ZELLER-JACQUES Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of York, UK

A timely intervention into debates on the representation of feminist and feminine identities in contemporary visual culture. The essays in this collection interrogate how and why certain formulations of feminism and femininity are currently prevalent in mainstream cinema and television, offering new insights into postfeminist media phenomena.A timely intervention into debates on the representation of feminist and feminine identities in contemporary visual culture. The essays in this collection interrogate how and why certain formulations of feminism and femininity are currently prevalent in mainstream cinema and television, offering new insights into postfeminist media phenomena.