[Commlist] Fwd: New book: Screening Siblings in Contemporary American Film

Katie Barnett is happy to announce the publication of the new book, 
/Screening Siblings in Contemporary American Film 
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/screening-siblings-in-contemporary-american-film-9781350383357/>/.

The book explores sibling relationships in North American cinema since 
2000 and how they reflect the state of the nation, as well as 
intersecting with issues of identity, gender, grief and family. It 
includes chapters on Hollywood blockbusters, teen movies, 
sorority/fraternity films, spooky twin horror films and dramas featuring 
adult siblings.


Description

Siblings are everywhere in film, but their place in cinema has largely 
gone unstudied. This book turns attention to the brother–sister dynamic 
on screen and the many ways it shapes how stories are told.

Screening Siblings in Contemporary American Film offers the first 
sustained analysis of how sibling relationships have shaped some of the 
most influential films of the twenty-first century. Exploring popular 
films such as Bring it On (2000), Legally Blonde (2001), Frozen (2013), 
Jurassic World (2015), and Black Panther (2018), Katie Barnett uncovers 
how contemporary cinema uses sisters and brothers to explore gender, 
family, grief, and identity. She shows how teen movies use siblings to 
construct 'safe' romances for girls while reinforcing older brother 
gatekeepers, how depictions of sororities both challenge and reproduce 
dominant ideas of femininity, and how on-screen fraternities reveal 
anxieties around troubled masculinity.

Barnett also explores how siblings, particularly twins, are utilized in 
contemporary horror to explore parental failure, grief and disturbed 
identity, and how representations of dysfunctional adult siblings are 
used to address loss and the impact of family identity on the self.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Get Help: Sibling-Centred Families in Contemporary Blockbusters
2. Brotherly Love: The Gatekeeper, The Proxy and The Safe Bet in Teen 
Romance Narratives
3. Going Greek: Negotiating Symbolic Siblinghood in College Movies
4. Mirror Images: Exploiting Sibling Connections in Horror Films
5. Arrested Development: Death, Dysfunction and the Return Home
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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