Future texts: subversive performance and feminist bodies

In: Electracy and transmedia studies

Abstract

Introduction / Vicki Callahan and Virginia Kuhn -- The New "Material Girls": Madonna, "Millenial" Pop Divas, and the Politics of Race and Gender / Shelleen Greene -- A Window Seat to History: Erykah Badu's Dealey Plaza Remix / Vicki Callahan -- The Possibilities of Liminality: Black Women's Future Texts as Productive Chaos / Nina Cartier -- Re-Creating Niobe: The Construction and Re-Construction of Black Femininity through Games and the Social Psychology of the Avatar / Nettrice R. Gaskins -- "Ghana Meets the World": Remixing Popular Culture on OMG! Ghana / Lorien R. Hunter -- Adapting Lisbeth for Hollywood: The Politics and Franchising Practices behind Sony's GWTDT Re-boot / Courtney Brannon Donoghue -- Recasting The Best Years of Our Lives: Gender, Revision, and Military Women in the Veteran's Home-coming Film / Anna Froula -- Television's Queer Future? The Possibilities and Limitations of Web Series, Digital Distribution, and LGBT Representation in Husbands / Melanie E. S. Kohnen -- Sucker Punch and the Aesthetics of Denial: Future Perfect Tense / Virginia Kuhn