Browsing Waterloo Research by Author "MacDonald, Shana"
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“All Your Faves Are Problematic”: The Performative Spectatorship of Drunk Feminist Film
MacDonald, Shana (Duke University Press, 2022-09-01)This article looks at the work of the Drunk Feminist Film (DFF) collective from Toronto, Canada. DFF screenings offer interactive in‐person and online events that combine watching popular Hollywood films with simultaneous ... -
Back to the Future of Postfeminist Film: Hallmark, Netflix, and the ‘New’ Woman’s Holiday Film
MacDonald, Shana; Wiens, Brianna (Routledge, 2024)Within the context of shifting dialogues around feminism and women’s roles at work and home, and an increasing recognition of racial and sexual diversity within these conversations, this chapter considers the resurgent ... -
Back to the Future of Postfeminist Film: Hallmark, Netflix, and the ‘New’ Woman’s Holiday Film
MacDonald, Shana; Wiens, Brianna I. (Routledge, 2024-03-04)Within the context of shifting dialogues around feminism and women’s roles at work and home, and an increasing recognition of racial and sexual diversity within these conversations, this chapter considers the resurgent ... -
Living whose best life? An intersectional feminist interrogation of postfeminist #solidarity in #selfcare
Wiens, Brianna I.; MacDonald, Shana (NECS European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, 2021-06-05)This article argues that one of the many ways that white supremacy functions within digital culture is to obscure the realities of social inequity via neoliberal dictums for self-improvement and individ-ualist calls to ... -
Meme-ifying Data: The Rise of Public Health Influencers on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter during Covid-19
MacDonald, Shana; Wiens, Brianna I. (DIGSUM, 2023-09-01)This article argues for the importance of the memetic tactic of bricolage within contemporary social media science communication for its capacity to curate and distill approachable, accessible, and shareable Covid-19 ... -
The Psychogeographies of Site-Specific Art
MacDonald, Shana (HAL Open Science, 2018-07-16)Contemporary efforts at urban revitalization have encouraged an increased production of site-specific public art events that temporarily inhabit popular city hubs. These “pop up†interventions range from loosely assembled ... -
The Queer and Feminist Worlds of Witches & Magical Beings in Feminist YA Graphic Novels
MacDonald, Shana (MAI, 2023-03-30)The figure of the witch currently offers a compelling manifestation of the desires and anxieties of our social moment particularly around gender, equity, and misogyny. With this current reemergence of the witch figure in ... -
“Vital acts of transfer”: Affective economies and embodied knowledge in #MeToo
MacDonald, Shana (Intellect, 2021-01-22)This book chapter situates the #MeToo movement as a live, ongoing performance within the digital media sphere. It argues that performance theory offers a unique means of grasping at the movement’s significance and on-going ... -
Voicing Dissonance: Resistant Soundscapes in 1960s Feminist Experimental Film
MacDonald, Shana (University of California Press, 2015-10-01)This article examines how sound was used as an effective tool of formal resistance in the work of influential feminist filmmakers, Carolee Schneemann (United States), Gunvor Nelson (Sweden), and Joyce Wieland (Canada). ... -
Witches in Swamps, Sirens at Sea, Leviathans of the Deep: Feminist Figures that Haunt our Social Media World
Wiens, Brianna I.; MacDonald, Shana (University of Waterloo, 2024)This article considers the resurgence of the monstrous feminine in digital culture, focusing on the memetic manifestation of witches, sirens, and leviathans. We trace the histories of these figures in the digital present, ...