{"id":549,"date":"2026-05-13T19:22:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/?p=549"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:22:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:22:45","slug":"new-edited-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/new-edited-volume\/","title":{"rendered":"New Edited Volume!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/files\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-13-at-4.54.49-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"504\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/files\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-13-at-4.54.49-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-555 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/files\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-13-at-4.54.49-PM.png 340w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/files\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-13-at-4.54.49-PM-202x300.png 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Gret<\/strong><strong>a Gerwig\u2019s <em>Barbie<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Popular Culture, Cinema, and Gender<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hilary Radner (Volume Editor)<strong>, <\/strong>Rebecca Stringer (Volume Editor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bloomsbury, 2026 [ISBN: <strong>9781350523951]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LINK: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/greta-gerwigs-barbie-9781350523951\/\">https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/greta-gerwigs-barbie-9781350523951\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Description<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This volume brings together an international array of contributors to analyse Greta Gerwig&#8217;s unprecedented success, <em>Barbie<\/em> (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.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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. <em>Greta Gerwig&#8217;s Barbie: Popular Culture, Cinema, and Gender<\/em> 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\u2013\u2013the brainchild of a significant director whose star is on the rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greta Gerwig\u2019s Barbie Popular Culture, Cinema, and Gender Hilary Radner (Volume Editor), Rebecca Stringer (Volume Editor) Bloomsbury, 2026 [ISBN: 9781350523951] LINK: https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/greta-gerwigs-barbie-9781350523951\/ Description This volume brings together an international array of contributors to analyse Greta Gerwig&#8217;s unprecedented success, Barbie (2023), exploring how a film released in a moment of industrial crisis for Hollywood became the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}