Latter-day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated MormonismFrom Sister Wives and Big Love to The Book of Mormon on Broadway, Mormons and Mormonism are pervasive throughout American popular media. In Latter-day Screens, Brenda R. Weber argues that mediated Mormonism contests and reconfigures collective notions of gender, sexuality, race, spirituality, capitalism, justice, and individualism. Focusing on Mormonism as both a meme and an analytic, Weber analyzes a wide range of contemporary media produced by those within and those outside of 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. The broad archive of mediated Mormonism contains socially conservative values, often expressed through neoliberal strategies tied to egalitarianism, meritocracy, and self-actualization, but it also offers a passionate voice of contrast on behalf of plurality and inclusion. In this, mediated Mormonism and the conversations on social justice that it fosters create the pathway toward an inclusive, feminist-friendly, and queer-positive future for a broader culture that uses Mormonism as a gauge to calibrate its own values. |
Contents
Spiritual Neoliberalism Image Management | |
The Raced and Gendered Implications of Spectacular Visibility | |
The Cultural Politics | |
Visibility Charismatic Evil and Gender Progressivism | |
Choice Happy Affect and Mormon Feminist | |
Conscience and the Queer Politics of Desire | |
Conclusion Afterthoughts and Latter Days | |
Notes | |
Media Archive | |
Other editions - View all
Latter-day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism Brenda R. Weber No preview available - 2019 |
Latter-day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism Brenda R. Weber No preview available - 2019 |
Common terms and phrases
abuse American argue believe Big Love blog Book of Mormon Brigham Young Brown called celebrity chapter choice Christ of Latter-day codes culture documentary Donny dōTERRA Elizabeth Smart episode F/LDS Facebook faith Feature film feel feminism feminist FLDS fundamentalist Mormon gender God’s happy heavenly heteronormative heterosexual Huffington Post husband identity Jeffs’s Jessop Joseph Smith Kody Latter-day Saints LDS Church leaders LGBT+ living mainstream and fundamentalist mainstream church mainstream LDS mainstream Mormon male mandates Marie Osmond married mediascape mediated Mormonism meme memoir Mesa modern polygamy Molly Mormon Mormon Church Mormon girl Mormon Glow Mormon missionary Mormon women neoliberalism obedience offer one’s Osmond patriarchal plural marriage political polygamists polygamy stories priesthood queer reality television reinforces religion religious Salt Lake City same-sex sexual Sister Wives social media spiritual neoliberalism teenage temple toxic femininity transgender Utah Warren Jeffs wife woman writes York YouTube