All Outputs (5)

Beyoncé’s celebrity feminism and performances of female empowerment in the arena concert (2015)
Book Chapter
Fairclough, K. (2015). Beyoncé’s celebrity feminism and performances of female empowerment in the arena concert. In B. Halligan, K. Fairclough, R. Edgar, & N. Spelman (Eds.), The Arena Concert : Music, Media and Mass Entertainment. London: Bloombsury

Through her live arena performances, pop/R and B artist Beyoncé Knowles appears to promote a shiny, depthless feminism that mass audiences can embrace. This chapter will provide a critical analysis of her 2013-2014 arena concert tour, The Mrs Carter... Read More about Beyoncé’s celebrity feminism and performances of female empowerment in the arena concert.

The arena concert : music, media and mass entertainment (2015)
Book
(2015). B. Halligan, K. Fairclough, R. Edgar, & N. Spelman (Eds.), The arena concert : music, media and mass entertainment. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic

The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment is the first sustained engagement with what might be said to be - in its melding of concert and gathering, in its evolving relationship with digital and social media, in its delivery of event, ex... Read More about The arena concert : music, media and mass entertainment.

Intimate live girls (2015)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2015). Intimate live girls. In B. Halligan, N. Spelman, R. Edgar, & K. Fairclough-Isaacs (Eds.), The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic

The arena concert requires a particular type of liveness of performance in order to transcend impersonal mass entertainment. Liveness here looks to authenticity and happenstance, privileges personal communications and seeks to live in the moment, and... Read More about Intimate live girls.

Metrosexual (encyclopedia entry). The Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of consumption and consumer studies (2015)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2015). Metrosexual (encyclopedia entry). The Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of consumption and consumer studies. In D. Cook, & J. Ryan (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies. Wiley Blackwell

“Use/abuse/everyone/everything” : a dialogue on LA Plays Itself (2015)
Journal Article
Halligan, B., & Wilson, L. (2015). “Use/abuse/everyone/everything” : a dialogue on LA Plays Itself. https://doi.org/10.13110/framework.56.2.0299

Abstract: This critical dialogue addresses the pioneering queer pornographic film LA Plays Itself from a variety of vantage points. The dialogue initially considers the film in relation to comparable works of pornography around the era of the Summer... Read More about “Use/abuse/everyone/everything” : a dialogue on LA Plays Itself.