Third Wave Feminism and Television : Jane Puts it in a Box.
Title:
Third Wave Feminism and Television : Jane Puts it in a Box.
Author:
Johnson, Merri Lisa.
ISBN:
9780857717368
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (239 pages)
Series:
Reading Contemporary Television
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword - Rhonda Hammer and Douglas Kellner -- Introduction: Ladies Love Your Box: The Rhetoric of Pleasure and Danger in Feminist Television Studies - Merri Lisa Johnson -- 1. Gangster Feminism: The Feminist Cultural Work of HBO's 'The Sopranos' - Merri Lisa Johnson -- 2. Female Heterosexual Sadism: The Final Feminist Taboo in 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and the Anita Blake Vampire Hunt Series - Carol Siegel -- 3. Primetime Harem Fantasies: Marriage, Monogamy, and a bit of Feminist Fanfiction on ABC's 'The Bachelor' - Katherine Frank -- 4. Getting Wet: The Heteroflexibility of Showtime's 'The L Word' - Candace Moore -- 5. Queer as Box: Boi Spectators and Boy Culture on Showtime's 'Queer as Folk' - Bobby Noble -- 6. HBO's 'OZ' and the Fights against Prisoner Rape: Chronicles from the Front Line - Lara Stemple -- 7. "The Room" as "Heterosexual Closet": The Life and Death of Alternative Relationalities on HBO's 'Six Feet Under' - Leslie Heywood -- About the Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
The sexual politics of television culture is the territory covered by this ground-breaking book - the first to demonstrate the ways in which third wave feminist television studies approaches and illuminates mainstream TV. Leading voices in third wave feminism focus on innovative US television shows, including The Sopranos, Oz, Six Feet Under, The L Word and the reality-TV show The Bachelor to take a closer look at the contradictions and reciprocities between feminism and television, engaging as they go in theoretical and critical conversations about media culture, third wave feminism, feminist spectatorship, the sex wars, and the politics of visual pleasure. _x000D_ _x000D_ The book offers an exuberant and accessible discussion of what television has to offer today's feminist fan. It also sets a new tone for future debate, turning away from a sober, near-pessimistic trend in much feminist media studies to reconnect with the roots of third wave feminism in riot grrrl culture, sexradical feminism, and black feminism, tracing too the narratives provided by queer theory in which pleasure has a less contested place.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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