{"title":"Books by Angelos Bollas","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781836081395","title":"Fashionable Queerness","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe exploration of masculinity in celebrity culture sheds light on the complex interplay between gender norms, media influence, and the construction of modern masculinity. Timothée Chalamet, Paul Mescal, and Barry Keoghan whose unique approach to fashion, style, and self-presentation challenges traditional notions of masculinity, provide fruitful subject matter for deep analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFashionable Queerness: Straight Appropriation of Queer Fashion\u003c\/em\u003e, author Angelos Bollas weaves together gender theory, sexuality studies, and celebrity research to create fresh pathways of understanding. Through this nuanced exploration, Bollas focuses on the intricate connections between gender dynamics, sexuality, and celebrity culture. From the red carpet to glossy fashion magazines, Timothée Chalamet, Paul Mescal, and Barry Keoghan, rising stars known for their acting prowess, have become icons for their distinctive fashion choices and their blurring of gender boundaries. By analyzing how Chalamet, Mescal, and Keoghan navigate the norms of celebrity culture, Bollas provides insights into how masculinity is both reinforced and transformed in the public eye. Bollas unravels the complexities of how gender and sexual identity and representation intersect with the construction of celebrity personas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining representations of masculinity in celebrity culture and uncovering broader societal implications related to gender norms, this is valuable reading for scholars of Gender Studies, Media and Communication, Fashion and Style, Cultural Capital Theory, and Queer Studies\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307612123509,"sku":"9781836081395","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781836081395_562bc9fa-4aab-498c-adf1-4a7691129c42.jpg?v=1786027963"},{"product_id":"voices-of-resistance","title":"Voices of Resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVoices of Resistance: Music, Femicide, and Gender Justice in Spain and Greece\u003c\/em\u003e examines how feminist musical practices across Southern Europe confront femicide and gender-based violence through mourning, memory, and political resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on detailed national case studies, the book argues that in contexts marked by institutional silences, legal gaps, or patriarchal backlash, music becomes a crucial feminist tool for naming violence, honouring victims, and sustaining collective demands for justice. In Spain, a rich genealogy of feminist musical activism intersects with a robust yet contested legislative landscape – functioning as emotional counter-publics that challenge antifeminist backlash and supplement the limitations of institutional responses. In Greece, where femicide lacks full legal recognition and media narratives often reproduce misogyny, music assumes an even more urgent role – transforming public grief into mobilisation and forging affective publics that hold state and society accountable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross both contexts, \u003cem\u003eVoices of Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e positions music as a vital yet incomplete mode of feminist world-making, capable of unsettling silence and imagining more just futures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57490363351413,"sku":"9781837084579","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781837084579.jpg?v=1786442256"},{"product_id":"the-stolen-present","title":"The Stolen Present","description":"\u003cp\u003eNostalgia, crisis politics, platform-mediated attention, climate delay, housing precarity, insecure work, culture wars, institutional distrust, democratic exhaustion. As these terms increasingly become the markers of contemporary democracies, \u003cem\u003eThe Stolen Present \u003c\/em\u003einvestigates how citizens are repeatedly invited to look backwards towards a mythologised past or forwards towards a promised but continually deferred future, while the present itself becomes harder to inhabit as the time in which power can be scrutinised and contested.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA short theoretical monograph about political time, this book develops the concept of present dispossession to describe the political and affective process through which citizens are separated from the present as a meaningful site of democratic attention, accountability, and collective intervention. Bringing together hauntology, nostalgia studies, theories of lost futures, critiques of neoliberalism, media and attention theory, and democratic thought, Angelos Bollas presents a four-part framework for understanding present dispossession through nostalgic displacement, futural deferral, accelerated immediacy and neoliberal privatisation. A unique conceptual intervention, the work also develops a specific use of the concept of slow power to describe the incremental, administrative, procedural, and often unspectacular ways through which political and economic arrangements are reorganised while public attention is captured elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffering practical democratic principles for reclaiming the present without succumbing to idealism, the book concludes with a civic framework to help scholars, educators, students and community organisations, and public institutions help understand ways of resisting temporal displacement and rebuilding collective democratic attention.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57573215175029,"sku":"9781808352850","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781808352850.jpg?v=1789395983"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-angelos-bollas.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}