Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-211) and index.
Contents:
Who's that girl?. Introduction, Re-invention? : Madonna's drowned worlds resurface / Santiago Fouz-Hernández and Freya Jarman-Ivens -- pt. 1. The girlie show : gender identities. Dragging out camp : narrative agendas in Madonna's musical production / Stan Hawkins -- Madonna's girls in the mix : performance of femininity beyond the beautiful / Patricia Pisters -- Where is the female body? : androgyny and other strategies of disappearance in Madonna's music videos / Corinna Herr. -- pt. 2. Post-Virgin : sexual identities. Queer hearing and the Madonna queen / Keith E. Clifton -- What it feels like for two girls : Madonna's play with lesbian (sub-)cultures / Freya Jarman-Ivens. -- pt. 3. Drowned worlds : ethnic identities. East is hot! : 'Madonna's indian summer' and the poetics of appropriation / Michael Angelo Tata -- Re-worlding the oriental : critical perspectives on Madonna as geisha / Rahul Gairola -- The day the music died laughing : Madonna and country / Sean Albiez -- Crossing the border(line) : Madonna's encounter with the Hispanic / Santiago Fouz-Hernández. -- pt. 4. Blond ambition : consuming celebrity. Madonna's daughters : girl power and the empowered girl-pop breakthrough / David Gauntlett -- Consuming Madonna then and now : an examination of the dynamics and structuring of celebrity consumption / Lisa Peñaloza.
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