Prof. Dr. Evangelia Kindinger

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Prof. Dr. Kindinger erforscht kulturelle Repräsentationen von Körpern und Identitäten in amerikanischen Medien und Literatur, mit Schwerpunkt auf Fat Studies, Geschlechterdarstellungen und diasporische Perspektiven. Sie analysiert kritisch, wie Körper, insbesondere dicke Körper, in Film, Fernsehen und Populärkultur inszeniert und bewertet werden, und untersucht die dahinterliegenden gesellschaftlichen Machtverhältnisse.

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Prof. Dr. Evangelia Kindinger

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Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät

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Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

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Literatur und Kultur Nordamerikas mit dem Schwerpunkt kulturelle Identitäten

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• Liminal Whiteness: Southern Rednecks, Hillbillies, and Crackers in American Culture

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• “An obese turtle on his back” – fat-shaming Donald J. Trump and the spectacle of fat masculinity

  2022

  Fat Studies · 10 Zitationen · DOI

  This article brings together fat studies and masculinity studies to critically read the various stagings of the fat body of former U.S. President Donald J. Trump in U.S. late-night talk shows such as Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel Live! During his presidency, these and other late-night hosts stressed that Trump was unfit for office, a sentiment often supported by fat-shaming discourses and imagery of the spectacular transgressions of Trump’s fat, male body that deemed his body as unfit for office as well. In these comedic segments, Trump’s fat, male body was utilized as a visualization of his incompetence, failures, and moral shortfalls. As I argue, these fat-shaming discourses are not merely aimed at making visible Trump’s lack of qualifications for the presidency, they result from deeply ingrained stigmatizations of fatness in popular culture. Specifically, I look at the unstable position of fat masculinity in U.S. public imagination, the dangers it supposedly poses to hegemonic masculinity, and the ways in which its intersection with whiteness (in this case Trump’s whiteness) informs this position. Satire, as a specific kind of communication, functions as a catalyst for anti-fat attitudes that are presented as political commentary.

• The ghost is just a metaphor: Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak, nineteenth-century female gothic, and the slasher

  2017

  DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · 3 Zitationen · DOI

  This article proposes a feminist reading of Guillermo del Toro’s horror-ghost film CRIMSON PEAK (2015) that is based on the film’s allusions to nineteenth-century female gothic writing and the slasher’s final girl trope. Del Toro utilises the ghost as a metaphor that mirrors the precarious position of women in patriarchal societies (in general) and in horror narratives (in particular). The film simultaneously sketches the development of the genre as such, from literary fiction to film. CRIMSON PEAK is thus a highly self-referential film that borrows from its predecessors and sheds light on the ghostliness of horror as such.

• “I Wanna Be Fat”: Healthism and Fat Politics in TLC’s My Big Fat Fabulous Life

  2017

  Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und Visuelle Kultur · 2 Zitationen · DOI

  American reality TV has for a long time staged fat bodies in exaggerated and voyeuristic ways. The aim of such programs is to tell cautionary tales about the supposedly disastrous effects of fatness for the individual and society. The fat body needs to change, or be controlled in order to function fully in a capitalist society. One series that interrupts this narrative is TLC’s My Big Fat Fabulous Life (2015-); the title suggests that this narrative is not one of misery and regret, but of joy – certainly an unusual take on fatness in reality TV. It stars Whitney Thore, a woman who claims to be body positive, and who advertises fat politics; politics inspired by fat studies and activism. These clash with the healthist, neoliberal ideology circulated in reality TV. While she announces that she is proud to be fat, her friends and family are constantly shown challenging her. The series thus sends contradicting messages: unable to fully commit to fat and body positivity, it stages Thore’s health problems in a spectacular way and thus undermines the successes and triumphs she experiences as fat role model.

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