{"product_id":"diana-and-beyond-9780252038730","title":"Diana and Beyond","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat narrative of white femininity transformed Diana into a simultaneous signifier of a national and global popular? What ideologies did the narrative tap into to transform her into an idealized woman of the millennium? This book deals with these questions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Shome presents critical arguments that challenge the seemingly innocuous tenants of celebrity culture by examining the strategies adopted by privileged upper-class white women to rejuvenate their identities, largely by extracting culture, resources and people from the developing world, and consequently are implicated in the production of neo-colonial conditions.\"--\u003ci\u003eCelebrity Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The clarity of her writing and her engaging media examples would make this an excellent text for students and seasoned scholars alike. Packaging analytical rigor alongside an exciting array of examples, \u003ci\u003eDiana and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e is as compelling as it is insightful.\"--\u003ci\u003eEuropean Journal of Cultural Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Raka Shome's \u003ci\u003eDiana and Beyond: White Femininity, National Identity, and Contemporary Media Culture\u003c\/i\u003e will take the field far in understanding how to cultivate a transnational attentiveness. The dazzling \u003ci\u003eDiana and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e follows Lady Di as she twists and turns, appears stable, transforms, and the moves again across various global and national registers. Shome deftly demonstrates how to study something as seemingly stable as national identity without stabilizing or circumscribing its constituents.\"--\u003ci\u003eQuarterly Journal of Speech\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A broader exploration of the relationship between White femininity and national ideologies, where particular understandings of the former perform a mediating function between the national and the global. . . . A powerful exercise of cultural critique that offers several wide-ranging lessons.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of Communication\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sharp analysis of how neoliberal logics have fundamentally changed the politics in the North Atlantic societies in the past decades - as in a shift from 'welfare' to 'wellness'. \u003ci\u003eDiana and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e certainly speaks to many fields of study. In her own elegant way, Shome demonstrates how Princess Diana of Wales has to do with everything else.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew Formations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An excellent resource for those interested in intersectional studies of nationalism, gender, and popular culture. . . . By identifying points of success and slippage between female iconicity and national identity, Shome’s project successfully traces the shifts in Diana’s Whiteness, as it masks the inequalities of class, religion, and race involving women of color and women of the Global South, to whom her book is dedicated.\"--\u003ci\u003ePopular Communication\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brings together one of the most talked about images in recent history, Princess Diana, with one of the least talked about, whiteness. It is a brilliant move, to see, scrutinize and show the elusive, and to many people invisible, structures of white femininity in one of its most visible and vivid manifestations. Combining a painstaking analysis of Diana's immediate historical and cultural context with a wide sense of her connection to other prominent images of white femininity, the book lucidly opens up the gender and ethnic specificities of particular, but also broad and familiar, instances of motherhood, fashion, nation, masculinity, and spirituality. This is a major contribution to cultural history and celebrity studies as well as the fields of gender and whiteness, beautifully written, always enthralling.\"--Richard Dyer, author of \u003ci\u003eWhite: Essays on Race and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHeavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well-researched and theoretically sophisticated, this work asks disturbing questions of contemporary neoliberal politics. By focusing on the significance of Princess Diana's whiteness, Shome's work takes us beyond post-imperial, postcolonial analyses of whiteness, by engaging instead with neoliberalism and globalization. Moving between the ethos of New Labour's 'Cool Britannia' and the Coalition government's demands for a skewed and cruel austerity, this work re-inflects race, class and sexuality in contemporary culture in new and significant ways. Without a doubt, one of the most significant books to be written about the intertwining of race, class and gender on the one hand and neoliberalism and multiculturalism on the other.\"--Radhika Mohanram, co-author of \u003ci\u003eImperialism as Diaspora: Race, Sexuality, and History in Anglo-India\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eDiana and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e generates astute understandings not only of the culture of the contemporary UK but also of transnationalized regimes of gender, privilege, and social class. Raka Shome has produced a genuinely intellectually exciting book that is adept at analyzing important cultural phenomena too often written off as ephemeral, apolitical and 'feminine.'\"--Diane Negra, author of \u003ci\u003eOff-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Shome's book is expertly-written and much-needed, connecting whiteness studies with concerns about neoliberalism and global media cultures.\"--Catherine R. Squires, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400431771991,"sku":"9780252038730","price":77.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252038730.jpg?v=1730470667","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/diana-and-beyond-9780252038730","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}