Media Review: Barbie and Ken
Staging Paradoxes to Bridge Polarization
A. Greco (TU Delft - Real Estate Management)
Ferran Torres ( Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)
Eriselda Danaj (Macquarie University)
Wendy Smith (University of Delaware)
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Abstract
Barbie is a polarizing cultural icon. Over the last 60 years, the doll represented feminism’s greatest advances and worst challenges. Fans lauded Barbie for inspiring creativity and opportunity among generations of young girls, while foes criticized her unattainable, sexualized body, dependency on male attention, and excessive consumerist inspiration. Greta Gerwig inherited this ongoing controversy when agreeing to write and direct the Barbie movie. Would Gerwig animate admirers or succumb to foes? [...]
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