Postfeminist whiteness : problematising melancholic burden in contemporary Hollywood The world is her oyster: negotiating contemporary white womanhood in Hollywoods tourist spaces Hoist the colours! Framing feminism through charismatic white leadership in the fantasy blockbuster Neoliberalism female agency and conspicuous consumption as tragic flaw in Woody Allens Blue Jasmine Paranoid attachments to suburban dreams: pathological feminitity in Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train Aristocratic whiteness body trauma and the market logic of melancholia in Black Swan Sofia Coppolas melancholic aesthetic: vanishing femininity in an object oriented world Conclusion: melancholic white femininity cultural resonance and the shifting politics of representation.