The Cyndi Lauper affect: Bodies, girlhood and popular culture

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Gottschall, Kristina, Gannon, Suzanne, Lampert, Jo and McGraw, Kelli. (2013). The Cyndi Lauper affect: Bodies, girlhood and popular culture. Girlhood Studies. 6(1), pp. 30 - 45. https://doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2013.060104
AuthorsGottschall, Kristina, Gannon, Suzanne, Lampert, Jo and McGraw, Kelli
Abstract

Using a collective biography method informed by a Deleuzian theoretical approach (Davies and Gannon 2009, 2012), this article analyses embodied memories of girlhood becomings through affective engagements with resonating images in media and popular culture. In this approach to analysis we move beyond the impasse in some feminist cultural studies where studies of popular culture have been understood through theories of representation and reception that retain a sense of discrete subjectivity and linear effects. In these approaches, analysis focuses respectively on decoding and deciphering images in terms of their normative and ideological baggage, and, particularly with moving images, on psychological readings. Understanding bodies and popular culture through Deleuzian notions of “becoming“ and “assemblage“ opens possibilities for feminist researchers to consider the ways in which bodies are not separate from images but are, rather, becomings that are known, felt, materialized and mobilized with/through images (Coleman 2008a, 2008b, 2008c, 2009, 2011; Ringrose and Coleman 2013). We tease out the implications of this new approach to media affects through three memories of girls' engagements with media images, reconceived as moments of embodied being within affective flows of popular culture that might momentarily extend upon ways of being and doing girlhood.

Year2013
JournalGirlhood Studies
Journal citation6 (1), pp. 30 - 45
ISSN1938-8209
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2013.060104
Page range30 - 45
Research GroupSchool of Education
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