{"product_id":"the-years-work-in-showgirls-studies-9780253068163","title":"The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Year's Work in\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Showgirls \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStudies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a fan culture volume that deconstructs how and why \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShowgirls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, a 1995 drama with a female lead bent on becoming a famous performer in Las Vegas, became a much-contested cult film despite being a critical failure when it released. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe collection orchestrates a conversation between scholarly essay work and archival documentation offering a magnificent representation of the array of responses generated by the film, its makers, its promoters, and its audience. A multifaceted approach to the film, its popularity, and its social relevance results in a new text for understanding normative social hierarchies of sexuality, race, and gender. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Year's Work in\u003c\/i\u003e Showgirls \u003ci\u003eStudies\u003c\/i\u003e engages with the figurative and actual place of sex work and feminized affective labor in our society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMelissa Hardie is Associate Professor of English at the University of Sydney. Her recent work appears in \u003ci\u003eAustralian Humanities Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTextual Practice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFilm Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAngelaki\u003c\/i\u003e and her most recent book chapter (with Amy Villarejo) appears in \u003ci\u003eTelevision Studies in Queer Times\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eMeaghan Morris is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Pirate's Fiancée: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism\u003c\/i\u003e; of \u003ci\u003eToo Soon Too Late: History in Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e; and of \u003ci\u003eIdentity Anecdotes: Translation and Media Culture\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eKane Race is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. He is author of \u003ci\u003ePleasure Consuming Medicine: The Queer Politics of Drugs\u003c\/i\u003e; of \u003ci\u003eThe Gay Science: Intimate Experiments with the Problem of HIV\u003c\/i\u003e; and (with Gay Hawkins and Emily Potter) of \u003ci\u003ePlastic Water: The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50643027624210,"sku":"9780253068163","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5ec25c4d-fa8e-4626-a3f6-d86533e2538c.jpg?v=1733076908","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-years-work-in-showgirls-studies-9780253068163","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}