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dc.contributor.authorWeber, Brenda R.
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-27 11:14:43
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T06:48:12Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T06:48:12Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier1007891
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22287
dc.description.abstractFrom Sister Wives and Big Love to The Book of Mormon on Broadway, Mormons and Mormonism are pervasive throughout American popular media. In Latter-day Screens, Brenda R. Weber argues that mediated Mormonism contests and reconfigures collective notions of gender, sexuality, race, spirituality, capitalism, justice, and individualism. Focusing on Mormonism as both a meme and an analytic, Weber analyzes a wide range of contemporary media produced by those within and those outside of the mainstream and fundamentalist Mormon churches, from reality television to feature films, from blogs to YouTube videos, and from novels to memoirs by people who struggle to find agency and personhood in the shadow of the church's teachings. The broad archive of mediated Mormonism contains socially conservative values, often expressed through neoliberal strategies tied to egalitarianism, meritocracy, and self-actualization, but it also offers a passionate voice of contrast on behalf of plurality and inclusion. In this, mediated Mormonism and the conversations on social justice that it fosters create the pathway toward an inclusive, feminist-friendly, and queer-positive future for a broader culture that uses Mormonism as a gauge to calibrate its own values.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies::JBCT2 Media studies: TV and societyen_US
dc.subject.otherLatter-day Saints
dc.subject.othermediation
dc.subject.othergender
dc.subject.othersexuality
dc.subject.otherMormon
dc.titleLatter-day Screens
dc.title.alternativeGender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1215/9781478090229
oapen.relation.isPublishedByf0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b
oapen.relation.isbn9781478005292; 9781478004868; 9781478004264
oapen.collectionToward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME)
oapen.pages384
oapen.place.publicationDurham
oapen.notes2020-03-27 11:10:12, Funder name: Indiana University/ Funding project name: Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem TOME


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