Greta Gerwig’s Barbie: Popular Culture, Cinema, and Gender

Hilary Radner (Curatore)

Rebecca Stringer (Curatore)

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2026

This volume brings together an international array of contributors to analyse Greta Gerwig’s unprecedented success, Barbie (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. 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. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie: Popular Culture, Cinema, and Gender 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––the brainchild of a significant director whose star is on the rise.

• Curatore: Hilary Radner, Rebecca Stringer
• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Anno: 2026
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 336 p.
• Dimensioni: 232 x 156 mm
• Peso: 740 gr.
• EAN: 9781350523968

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