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Latter-Day Screens : Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism by Brenda R. Weber (2019, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherDuke University Press

ISBN-10147800486X

ISBN-139781478004868

eBay Product ID (ePID)23038395365

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Number of Pages384 Pages

Publication NameLatter-Day Screens : Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism

LanguageEnglish

SubjectChristianity / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon), Gender Studies, Film / History & Criticism

Publication Year2019

TypeTextbook

AuthorBrenda R. Weber

Subject AreaReligion, Performing Arts, Social Science

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight12.3 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width5.9 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2019-943713

ReviewsA deep, provocative look at mass and social media portrayals of Mormons on the parts of both Mormons and non-Mormons. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty., Weber makes a series of arguments, deeply informed by theories in media studies and gender and sexuality studies, about the interplay among actual Mormons and media characterizations of them. In the burgeoning field of Mormon Studies, this is a fresh approach., Latter-day Screens is an amazing encyclopedic survey of the details of the Mormon Church and the place of Mormons in American popular culture. Drawing on cultural theories of mediation, mass culture, and film studies, Brenda R. Weber draws the reader into everything from aromatherapy oils to South Park parodies. Timely and relevant, and teachable for a range of classes, Latter-day Screens is an exceedingly important and interesting book., In Latter-day Screens , gender studies professor Brenda R. Weber examines pop culture's ongoing fascination with Mormons. Mainstream media has given us a largely one-dimensional view of Mormonism: Sister Wives, Big Love, and even storylines on Love After Lockup present polygamy as the sum total of the religion. But Weber has another story to tell, one that's about how Mormons are using pop culture--including TV shows, books, and YouTube videos--to find and enact their agency and rethink their conservative religion's understanding of gender, sexuality, race, spirituality, and justice., Smart, sassy, and full of provocative insight, this book shines a light on Mormonism, not as a religious tradition but as a ubiquitous cultural trope that is uniquely attuned to queerly mediated notions of sexuality and gender., With its informative and enriching contextualization of its sources, Latter-day Screens provides a significant critical reading of Mormon media sources while also functioning as an innovative approach to Mormonism.

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal289.3

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments ix Past as Prologue: Latter-day Screens and History 1 Introduction. "Well, We Are a Curiosity, Ain't We?": Mediated Mormonism 13 1. Mormonism as Meme and Analytic: Spiritual Neoliberalism, Image Management, and Transmediated Salvation 49 2. The Mormon Glow: The Raced and Gendered Implications of Spectacular Visibility 91 3. The Epistemology of the (Televised, Polygamous) Closet: The Cultural Politics of Mediated Mormonism and the Promises of the American Dream 120 4. Polygamy USA: Visability, Charismatic Evil, and Gender Progressivism 162 5. Gender Trouble in Happy Valley: Choice, Affect, and Mormon Feminist Housewives 201 6. "Pray (and Obey) the Gay Away": Conscience and the Queer Politics of Desire 241 Conclusion. Afterthoughts and Latter Days 276 Epilogue. Mormons on My Mind, or, Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Hegemony I Learned in Mesa, Arizona 284 Notes 309 References 329 Media Archive 345 Index 361

SynopsisFrom Sister Wives and Big Love to The Book of Mormon on Broadway, Mormons and Mormonism are pervasive throughout American popular media. In Latter-day Screens , Brenda R. Weber argues that mediated Mormonism contests and reconfigures collective notions of gender, sexuality, race, spirituality, capitalism, justice, and individualism. Focusing on Mormonism as both a meme and an analytic, Weber analyzes a wide range of contemporary media produced by those within and those outside of the mainstream and fundamentalist Mormon churches, from reality television to feature films, from blogs to YouTube videos, and from novels to memoirs by people who struggle to find agency and personhood in the shadow of the church's teachings. The broad archive of mediated Mormonism contains socially conservative values, often expressed through neoliberal strategies tied to egalitarianism, meritocracy, and self-actualization, but it also offers a passionate voice of contrast on behalf of plurality and inclusion. In this, mediated Mormonism and the conversations on social justice that it fosters create the pathway toward an inclusive, feminist-friendly, and queer-positive future for a broader culture that uses Mormonism as a gauge to calibrate its own values., Brenda R. Weber examines how the mediation of Mormonism through film, TV, blogs, YouTube videos, and memoirs functions as a means to understand conversations surrounding gender, sexuality, spirituality, capitalism, justice, and individualism in the United States.

LC Classification NumberBX8638.W43 2019