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The politics of hair: girls, secularism and (not) the veil in Mustang and Other recent French films
(Edinburgh University Press, 31 October 2019)This article explores art cinema's association of long, straight, shimmering hair with an idealized white, secular, agentic version of girlhood in Deniz Ergüven's Mustang (2015). With reference to girlhood studies and ... -
Genres of Production and the Production of Genre: Gender, Genre and Technical Labour in the Arthur Freed Unit
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Walt Whitman
(Cambridge University Press, 15 June 2022)In one of the reviews of the 1855 Leaves of Grass, an anonymous reviewer for the Swedenborgian Christian Spiritualist conceives of Whitman’s poetry (and poetry more broadly) as aligning with a tradition of spiritual ... -
Cameras
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 30 November 2023)This chapter takes up the literary reverberations of two types of photography – still and moving – in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The invention and popularization of still photography in the nineteenth century ... -
Of Death and Dominion: Queen Victoria and the cult of colonial loyalty
(Routledge, 13 September 2020)The image of Queen Victoria, painted and sculpted, still dominates public spaces scattered throughout every continent. More than any other historic individual, places, institutions and squares still bear her name. As the ...