Concrete and Dust: Mapping the Sexual Terrains of Los Angeles: Mapping the Sexual Terrains of Los Angeles (Innovative Ethnographies) - Hardcover

Minge, Jeanine Marie; Zimmerman, Amber Lynn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415808421 ISBN 13: 9780415808422

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

Concrete and Dust focuses on the performative nature of sexualized identity in Hollywood, the people that live in its underbelly and surrounding valleys, the sexual geographies of the place, and the ways in which sexual agency is mapped on the body and in consciousness. The cultural turn in ethnography has expanded the scope of ethnographic research methods, which now include innovative techniques that recognize and value sensuous scholarship (ethnographic works that incorporate visual, aural, and sensory texts). Hollywood has often been a focus in critical cultural theory; absent from the field is a holistic methodological perspective that collages visual image, arts-based ethnographic and autoethnographic narratives, experimental sound, poetry, and performative writing, in order to juxtapose the conflicting and complex performative nature of Hollywood, celebrity, glamour, and sexual agency.

About this title

About the Author

Jeanine M. Mingé is Assistant Professor and Director of Performance Ensemble in the Department of Communication Studies at California State University, Northridge.

Amber Lynn Zimmerman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Drama and Speech Communication at the University of Waterloo.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415808421
• ISBN 13: 9780415808422
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272