Gossip Girl Goes to the Gallery: Bernadette Corporation and digitextuality

Fascinated by the circumstances of the books' production, the art collective Bernadette Corporation takes "Gossip Girl", a series of thirteen young-adult that details the lives of wealthy teenagers in the Manhattan borough of New York City, as one prototype for its novel "Reena S...

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Published in:Performance research 2013-10, Vol.18 (5), p.108-119
Main Author: Warren-Crow, Heather
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Capitalism
Media
Novels
Reading
Writing
Young adult literature
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Summary:Fascinated by the circumstances of the books' production, the art collective Bernadette Corporation takes "Gossip Girl", a series of thirteen young-adult that details the lives of wealthy teenagers in the Manhattan borough of New York City, as one prototype for its novel "Reena Spaulings" (2004) and related works. This paper analyzes the labour performed by writing in producing BC's version of "Gossip Girl" and in authoring the Girl as gossipy in the first place. After tracing the stubborn gendering of face-to-face and online gossip, Warren-Crow offers a reading of the "Reena Spaulings" (con)textual network that addresses not only what it says about capitalism and participatory media, but also what it does with and to girlhood as a digitextual phenomenon.
ISSN:1352-8165
1469-9990
DOI:10.1080/13528165.2013.828944