Third Wave Feminism and Television: Jane Puts It in a Box (Reading Contemporary Television)
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (671 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1845112466 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. 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 girl culture, sex radical feminism, and black feminism, tracing too the narratives provided by queer theory in which pleasure has a less contested place.
""If you know a sucker for any of the following -- Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, vampires -- then you may want to pick up this awesome anthology for them. Johnson…brings together a range of totally intriguing and theoretically rigorous essays on the intersection between popular television and new feminisms.' --Feministing
Amazon Customer said Five Stars. just the right price and quick shipping. Great Social Commentary J. Aragon I'm a fan of LMJ's other edited volumes, and this book didn't dissapoint. I found that some of the sections were more interesting and stronger than others, but isn't that usually the case with an anthology?Some Third Wave feminists continue to spend ample time critically examining the world around us, especially pop culture. This book adds to this genre and provides an academic look at television, the box.I found the Sopran. "television from a feminist standpoint" according to Elevate Difference. Merri Lisa Johnson's collection, Third Wave Feminism and Television, uses contemporary television as a lens through which to view a variety of issues - ranging from S&M practices to prisoner rape - within a third wave framework. The essay most emblematic of this approach is the final one, Leslie Heywood's incredibly insightful "The Room as 'Heterosexual Closet': The Life and Death of Alternative Relationships on Six Feet Un