"Blurred Lines": Robin Thicke and Madonna Ciccone between Madonna and Whore
"Blurred Lines": Robin Thicke and Madonna Ciccone between Madonna and Whore作者机构:The Pennsylvania State University U.S.A
出 版 物:《Cultural and Religious Studies》 (文化与宗教研究(英文版))
年 卷 期:2014年第2卷第1期
页 面:17-28页
学科分类:01[哲学] 0101[哲学-哲学] 05[文学] 010107[哲学-宗教学] 0503[文学-新闻传播学]
主 题:gender studies religious studies popular culture feminist theory social theory
摘 要:Robin Thicke's song "Blurred Lines" rekindled the debate about women who must choose an existence as Madonna or as whore. Biblical archetypes, such as Eve and Mary, are normative role models for women, even within secular societies. This study follows a pre-Fall Eve, who experiences shameless sexual pleasures, to a post-Fall shamed Eve, to the Virgin Mary, who is mother but virgin. Robin Thicke's video "Blurred Lines," and Madonna Ciccone's various videos reclaim sexual pleasures for womert outside of sin. Close readings of several visual texts will show that how meaning is redistributed among signifieds by deconstructing and redefining conventional signifiers, such as virgin and whore.