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Pretty in Plastic: Aesthetic authenticity in Barbie Land

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Swansea University Authors: Katrina Pritchard Orcid Logo, Helen Williams Orcid Logo

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Our report critically applies aesthetic authenticity as a theoretical lens to interrogate the multimodal reproduction of gendered relations in the Barbie (2023) movie. Recent research has focused on how the aesthetic authenticity stakes are being continually elevated, such that this requires ongoing...

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