Hipster Culture: Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives

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Twenty-first century popular culture has given birth to a peculiar cultural figure: the hipster. Stereotypically associated with nerd glasses, beards and buns, boho clothing, and ironic t-shirts, hipsters represent a (post-)postmodern subculture whose style, aesthetics and activities have increasingly become mainstream. Hipster Culture is the first comprehensive collection of original studies that address the hipster and hipster culture from a range of Cultural Studies perspectives. Discussing the cultural, economic, and political meanings and implications of a wide range of cultural phenomena prominently associated with hipster culture, the contributors bring their own expertise and experiences to bear. These include the gentrification of urban areas, alternative food styles and nutrition choices, vintage fashion styles and eclectic body adornments and practices, the nostalgic use of retro technologies, and the production and consumption of literature, art and music with a characteristic aesthetic and style marked by self-reflexivity, irony, and a simultaneous longing for an earnest authenticity. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Illustrations Acknowledgments 1 Hipster Culture: A Definition Hipster Places, Identities, and Transformations 2 (Re-)Dressing the Naked City: (Annabel Friedrichs and Florian Groß) 3 Glocal Hipsterification: Hipster-Led Gentrification in New York’s, New Delhi’s, and Johannesburg’s Cultural Time Zones (Mel 4 Hipsters in Central and Eastern Europe: (George Alexandru Condrache) 5 Pastiching the Pastoral: (Katje Armentrout) Hipster Fashion, Porn, and Body Politics 6 Hipsters and (Anti-)Fashion (Catharina Rüß) 7 The Irony of Hipster Beards (Christopher Oldstone-Moore) 8 The Politics of Hipster Porn/ography (Alexandra Hauke and Philip Jacobi) Hipster Literature and Self-Fashioning 9 Twenty-First-Century Hipster Fiction and Postindustrial Revitalization (Brandon McFarlane) 10 Choosing Marginality: White Entitlement in Dave Eggers’s Hipster Fiction (Stephanie Li) 11 The Line, the Niche, and the Bathrobe: The White Male Writer as a Hipster Trope (Katharina Scholz) 12 “The Straight Queer”: Hipster Appropriation in the Work of James Franco (Ben Robbins) Hipster Media, Aesthetics, and Identity Politics 13 The Female Hipster in Girls and Frances Ha and the Potential of Emancipated Spectatorship (Heidi Lucja Liedke) 14 “Fem the Future” of Hipness: Female Hipster Performers in Twenty-First-Century Popular Music (Lena Gotteswinter) 15 Art Hipsters: Postmodern Proclamations (Wes Hill) 16 Hipster Post-Communities and Digital Nostalgia Design (Marek Jezinski and Lukasz Wojtkowski) Hipster Foodways and Cultural Politics 17 The Pursuit of Culinary Capital in Portlandia and Master of None (Justine Gieni) 18 Pabst Blue Ribbon: (Daniella Gáti) 19 The Paradox of the Hungry Hipster: (Kathleen LeBesco and Peter Naccarato) Hipsters as Intersectional Identities 20 Mipsterz: (Anwar Ouassini and Mostafa Amini) 21 Skinny Jeans in the Sanctuary: The Hipster Christian Subculture (Caroline Barnett) 22 The Hipster Animal: Human–Animal Interactions in Hipsterdom (Jayson Scott Grimes) Contributors Index