Screening Scarlett Johansson

Screening Scarlett Johansson: Gender, Genre, Stardom provides an account ofJohansson's persona, work and stardom, extending from her breakout roles in independent cinema, to contemporary blockbusters, to her self-parodying work in science-fiction. Screening Scarlett Johansson is more than an account of Johansson's career; it positions Johansson as a point of reference for interrogating how femininity, sexuality, identity and genre play out through a contemporary womanstar and the textual manipulations of her image. The chapters in this collection cast a critical eye over the characters Johansson has portrayed, the personas she has inhabited, and how the two intersect andinfluence one another. They draw out the multitude of meanings generated through and inherent to herperformances, specifically looking at processes of transformation, metamorphosis and self-deconstruction depicted in her work.