Difficult Women on Television Drama: The Gender Politics Of Complex Women In Serial Narratives

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Isabel Pinedo

Difficult Women on Television Drama

The Gender Politics Of Complex Women In Serial Narratives

Isabel Pinedo

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Routledge
31 May 2023

The Arts: General & Reference; Humanities; Gender studies: men; Sociology; Media, information & communication industries

Series: Routledge Advances in Television Studies

Difficult Women on Television Drama analyses select case studies from international TV dramas to examine the unresolved feminist issues they raise or address: equal labor force participation, the demand for sexual pleasure and freedom, opposition to sexual and domestic violence, and the need for intersectional approaches.

Drawing on examples from The Killing, Orange is the New Black, Big Little Lies, Wentworth, Outlander, Westworld, Being Mary Jane, Queen Sugar, Vida, and other television dramas with a focus on complex female characters, this book illustrates how female creative control in key production roles (direct authorship) together with industrial imperatives and a conducive cultural context (indirect authorship) are necessary to produce feminist texts. Placed within the larger context of a rise in feminist activism and political participation by women; the growing embrace of a feminist identity; and the ascendance of post-feminism, this book reconsiders the unfinished nature of feminist struggle(s) and suggests the need for a broader sweep of economic change.

This book is a must-read for scholars of media and communication studies; television and film studies; cultural studies; American studies; sociology of gender and sexualities; women and gender studies; and international film, media and cinema studies.

By: Isabel Pinedo
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9780367700072
ISBN 10: 0367700077
Series: Routledge Advances in Television Studies
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 31 May 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. The Rise of Difficult Women in Serial Narrative Television Drama (2005–2020); 2. Economic Inequality and the Working Mother: The Killing in Denmark and the U.S.; 3. Female Sexual Pleasure and Freedom: Outlander and Westworld; 4. Violence Against Women and Women Who Kill: Big Little Lies, Orange is the New Black, and Wentworth; 5 Intersectionality: Beyond the White Female Subject; 6. Conclusion; Index

Isabel Pinedo is Professor in the Department of Film & Media at Hunter College, CUNY.