Resist and Persist

Amanda Firestone is an assistant professor of communication at the University of Tampa. Her research focuses on the heroine’s coming-of-age in Young Adult Literature. Leisa A. Clark is a professor of arts and humanities, teaching diverse class subjects such as art history, media studies, and film history. She is the author of a variety of books, ranging from fictional comedic space opera to critical edited collections. She lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface (Amanda Firestone)Section I: “They’re already here. You’re next” (Amanda Firestone)Jessica Jones, Film Noir and #MeToo (Caroline Hovanec)Digital Activism and Storytelling: Exploring the Radical Potential of the #MeToo Movement (Meagan Thompson)The Perils of Performance: Performing the Politics of Respectability as Resistance in Get Out (Alisha Menzies)He Did Nazi That Coming: Remix, Resistance and Richard Spencer’s Face (Jason Buel and Kristi Kouchakji)“A society on the verge of a nervous breakdown”: The Death of Stalin, Historical Film and Resistance to Trump’s America(Sabrina Mittermeier)Section II: “The only way to support a revolution is to make your own”(Amanda Firestone)The Trial of King Killmonger: Theorizing the Rage of a Third Culture Kid as Resistance (Kwasu David Tembo)Voiceless Yet Vocal: Speaking Desire in The Shape of Water (Jeana Jorgensen)“Who tells your story?” The Power of Hamilton’s Fantastic ­Re-Telling of American History (Amanda K. LeBlanc)“Promise me we’ll do this together”: Trauma and the Restorative Power of the Feminine in Frozen and Moana (Jessica Stanley)Real Curves in the Revolution: Body Politics, Unruly Bodies and Comedy as Resistance (S. Katherine Cooper, Brittany M. Harder and Corinne E. Fanta)Section III: “You celebrated the small victories, and you dreamed of the big ones to come” (Amanda Firestone)“A one woman riot”: The Voice of the #ICantKeepQuiet Choir(Elizabeth J. Dickhut)Documentary Agitation and Outreach: The Rhetorical Networks of Resistance in Popular Nonfiction Film (Chandra A. Maldonado)Gillard of Thrones: Using Popular Culture to Resist Misogyny(Ana Stevenson)Come from Away: Resistance in the 2017 Film Wonder Woman(Mary F. Pharr)“We are the spark that will light the fire”: Hope, the Cyclical Pattern of Resistance and Concrete Dystopia in Disney’s The Last Jedi (Annika Gonnermann)About the ContributorsIndex

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