Latter-Day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism Weber Brenda R.
Latter-Day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism Weber Brenda R. From Sister Wives and Big Love to The Book of Mormon on Broadway, Mormons and Mormonism are pervasive throughout American…
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Latter-Day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism Weber Brenda R.
From Sister Wives and Big Love to The Book of Mormon on Broadway, Mormons and Mormonism are pervasive throughout American popular media. Weber argues that mediated Mormonism contests and reconfigures collective notions of gender, sexuality, race, spirituality, capitalism, justice, and individualism. In Latter-day Screens, Brenda R.
The broad archive of mediated Mormonism contains socially conservative values, often expressed through neoliberal strategies tied to egalitarianism, Focusing on Mormonism as both a meme and an analytic, Weber analyzes a wide range of contemporary media produced by those in and outside 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.