书目名称 | Women in Neoliberal Postfeminist Television Drama | 副标题 | Representing Gendere | 编辑 | Cat Mahoney | 视频video | | 概述 | Demonstrates that postfeminism, far from being a spent force, remains a structuring need in representations of women’s history on television.Offers a new perspective to debates on representations of w | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | . ..“In this insightful book, Cat Mahoney offers a fascinating analysis of contemporary TV dramas such as Home Fires, Land Girls and The Bletchley Circle. Developing the idea that history is told through the preoccupations of the present, she argues compellingly that these are postfeminist dramas which work through troubling ideas about heteronormative romance, domesticity, beauty and whiteness, while reinforcing the idea that feminism as a political movement is not necessary. A bold and original contribution to television studies, gender studies and popular history.”.. ..̶ Rosalind Gill, City, University of London, UK.. .By examining contemporary television drama set during and immediately after the Second World War, this book illustrates the ways in which postfeminism has shaped representations of women in contemporary culture. Mahoney offers a new perspective to debates that have previously been concerned with questions of historical accuracy. She argues that depictions of women from the past in modern television drama spawn from the neoliberal postfeminist media climate which originated in the 1990s. These depictions respond to a cultural need to naturalise and de-historicise | 出版日期 | Book 2019 | 关键词 | Television; Modern History; Gender; Postfeminism; Representation; Popular Culture | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30449-2 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-30449-2 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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