Various cultural theories (foremost among them, postmodernism) have figured in the debate
over the politics of representation. These theories have tended to look at representation in …

Madonna is criticized from a variety of perspectives, but each assumes a higher social,
moral, or aesthetic ground from which she can be seen as unworthy of emulation. This …

Madonna is perhaps one of the most consistently transgressive and self-transforming artists
of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The recent release of two critically acclaimed and …

Within the context of ongoing debate between feminism and postmodernism, this essay
adopts a postmodern feminist perspective to examine how pop‐star Madonna uses …

The media's appetite for Madonna items is insatiable, but Madonna fascination is potent
enough to ensure that anything even loosely related to her will attract enough interest to …

Madonna has long been accepted as a pop culture icon, but this text postulates a greater
cultural importance by analyzing her as a postmodern myth. This work examines how …

A great deal of ink has been spilled in the debate over pop star Madonna's viual image and
the narratives she has enacted for music video. Almost every response in the spectrum has …

Questions of representation have come to occupy central positions in contemporary cultural
analysis. In this essay, I want to address the politics of representation as they pertain to …

This essay analyzes the construction “race,”; gender, and sexuality in contemporary US
popular culture through an analysis of the Hollywood film, Showdown in Little Tokyo, and …

The ways in which women are represented in advertising, the news media, fine art and
pornography have become the subject of attack, debate and analysis. Given the …