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analysis. See especially: Michèle Barrett, ‘Feminism and the definition of cultural
politics’.
Burston, Paul and Colin Richardson (eds), A Queer Romance: Lesbians, Gay Men and
Popular Culture, London: Routledge, 1995. An interesting collection of essays look-
ing at popular culture from the perspective(s) of queer theory.
Creekmur, Corey K. and Alexander Doty (eds), Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian, and Queer
Essays on Popular Culture, London: Cassell, 1995. An excellent collection of essays
on contemporary popular culture from an antihomophobic and antiheterocentrist
perspective.
Easthope, Antony, What a Man’s Gotta Do: The Masculine Myth in Popular Culture,
London: Paladin, 1986. A useful and entertaining account of the ways in which
masculinity is represented in contemporary popular culture.
Franklin, Sarah, Celia Lury and Jackie Stacy (eds), Off Centre: Feminism and Cultural
Studies,London: HarperCollins, 1991. An excellent collection of feminist work in
cultural studies.
Geraghty, Christine, Women and Soap Opera: A Study of Prime Time Soaps,Cambridge:
Polity Press, 1991. A comprehensive introduction to feminist analysis of soap
operas.
Jeffords, Susan, The Remasculinization of America: Gender and the Vietnam War,
Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1989. The book explores
representations of masculinity across a range of popular texts to argue that follow-
ing the crisis of defeat in Vietnam strenuous attempts have been made to remas-
culinize American culture.
Macdonald, Myra, Representing Women: Myths of Femininity in Popular Media, London:
Edward Arnold, 1995. An excellent introduction to the way women are talked about
and constructed visually across a range of popular media.
McRobbie, Angela, Feminism and Youth Culture, London: Macmillan, 1991. A selection
from the work of one of the leading figures in feminist analysis of popular culture.
Pribram, Deidre E. (ed.), Female Spectators: Looking at Film and Television,London:
Verso, 1988. A useful collection of essays looking at different aspects of filmic and
televisual popular culture.
Thornham, Sue, Passionate Detachments: An Introduction to Feminist Film Theory, London:
Edward Arnold, 1997. An excellent introduction to the contribution of feminism to
the study of film.