Reading Sex and the City

Kim Akass, Janet McCabe

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English

I.B. Tauris
31 December 2003

Television; Cultural studies; Media studies

Series: Reading Contemporary Television

"HBO's hit series ""Sex and the City"" has a huge international fanbase and has picked up major awards. This critical celebration of the life and times of Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha looks at the series as a new departure for TV comedy drama. It discusses its position in an increasingly complex television landscape and pioneers innovative approaches to the study of contemporary television culture. The book explores among many other issues female fandom and fan culture; fashion and fashion journalism; male archetypes and the search for Mr Right; third wave feminism; sex and the single girl and indeed sex and the citizen. The book includes a full episode guide, reports from the ""Sex and the City"" Manhattan tour and a map of ""Sex and the City"" New York."

Edited by: Kim Akass, Janet McCabe
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9781850434238
ISBN 10: 1850434239
Series: Reading Contemporary Television
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 31 December 2003
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional and scholarly , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements Contributors Regular Cast List Introduction: Welcome to the age of un-innocence Part 1: Sex, Sexuality and Relationships Part 2: Socio-sexual Identitites Part 3: Fashion and Cultural Identities Part 4: Narrative, Genre and Intertextuality Part 5: Fandom, Flanerie and Desiring Identity Appendices: Episode Guide, Film and TV Guide Bibliography Index

Janet McCabe is Lecturer in Film Studies at Trinity College, Dublin Kim Akass is a writer and editor; she is, with Janet McCabe, Series Editor of Tauris' Reading Contemporary Television Series and is on the Editorial Board of the Critical Studies in Television journal. She is co-editor, with Janet McCabe, of Reading 'Sex and the City', Reading 'Six Feet Under', 'Reading 'The L Word', Reading 'Desperate Housewives'and Quality TV all published by I.B. Tauris.

Reviews for Reading Sex and the City

...the editors have managed to mirror the show's fine balancing act between breezy and serious... 'Sex and the City' - and this book - illustrate not only that feminism is alive and well, but that good writing by and about women is too. -Cathy Dillon, Irish Times Finally, a respectable academic companion to a guilty pleasure. This collects 17 scholarly articles about the iconic HBO show Sex and the City and is a guaranteed page-turner for those who enjoy nothing better than a mesmerizing essay by Foucault, followed by a luxurious wallow in Vanity Fair. Both film studies professors, Akass (London Metropolitan Univ.) and McCabe (Trinity Coll., Dublin) have assembled a compilation of topical, interesting, and entertaining (for academia) writing about some of the dominant, nonviolent issues of our day. Truly, this is essential for the intellectual fashionista! Highly recommended for academic and large public libraries. -Andrea Slonosky, Library Journal offers a range of perspectives and methodological approaches The strength of the collection lies in its engagement with debates key to the study of contemporary popular culture genuinely illuminating piece of cultural and textual analysis The serious attnetion to a popular media text that this collection represents might constitute an eually serious threat to the institutions which produce it. - European Journal of Cultural Studies