Barbie and the Bible
Playing with Pop Culture, Gender, and Theology
Barbie and the Bible
Playing with Pop Culture, Gender, and Theology
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Description
This book brings together scholars from theology, film studies, psychology, and related disciplines to discuss the Barbie movie as an interpretation of culture, and as a cultural phenomenon in its own right.
The chapters analyze the cultural impact of the movie on its own terms, critically engaging its explicit attempts to offer social critiques of capitalism, patriarchy, ableism, and racism. The scholars in this volume come from a range of disciplinary perspectives, and identify various ways in which the movie engages dominant cultural narratives-resisting, rewriting, retelling, and accommodating the stories we tell as a society about race, gender, sex, economics, beauty, death, the nature of God, and human embodiment.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Christopher B. Hays and Meghan Henning
Part I. Barbie, the Hebrew Bible, and the Ancient Near East
Chapter 1: The Creator and Her Creation: The Representation of Ruth Handler as God in the Barbie Movie,
Hanne Løland Levinson
Chapter 2: Innerbiblical Barbie: Teraphim and Image of God in Genesis, Collin Cornell
Chapter 3: Come Play With Me!: Barbie, Judean Pillar Figurines, and the Economics of Reuse, Kristine Garroway
Chapter 4: Why is Barbie Called a Jezebel?, Tammi J. Schneider
Chapter 5: “That Power Looks So Good on You”: Esther/Ishtar in Pink, Esther Brownsmith
Chapter 6: 'What Was I Made For?' 'For Such a Time as This': Diaspora, Identity, and Purpose in Barbie and Esther, Alexiana Fry
Part II: Barbie, the New Testament, and the Classical World
Chapter 7: “Do You Ever Think About Dying?”: Death and Transformation in Barbie, Breaking Bad, and the Bible, Christopher B. Hays
Chapter 8: Barbie's Otherworldly Journey: From Plastic Possibilities to Toxic Positivity and Back, Meghan Henning
Part III: The Barbie Movie in Contemporary Culture
Chapter 9: It's Hard to be Fragile When You're Made of Plastic: How Dolls with No Genitalia Expose the Absent Center of Greta Gerwig's Barbie, Kutter Callaway
Chapter 10: “Am-Bar-Be-Veil-Lents”, Neomi De Anda
Product details
| Published | 25 Jun 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781666980660 |
| Imprint | T&T Clark |
| Illustrations | 10 tables |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Series | Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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