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Fierce Females on Television

A Cultural History

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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A fascinating deep-dive into how shows from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to The Equalizer have changed the way women are portrayed on television.The last three decades of television have been a formative and progressive time for female characters, as stronger, more independent women have appeared on screen to guide a new generation of viewers into their own era of power. These characters battle vampires, demons, corrupt government officials, and scientific programs all while dealing with the same real-world concerns their audiences face every day.In Fierce Females on Television: A Cultural History, Nicole Evelina examines ten shows from the past thirty years to unveil the enormous impact they have had on the way women are portrayed on television. She reveals how Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Alias, Nikita, Agent Carter, Jessica Jones, Homeland, House of Cards, Orphan Black, and The Equalizer feature extraordinary lead characters who are at the same time utterly relatable, facing surprisingly familiar questions in their everyday lives regarding sexuality, gender, and how to fight back in a patriarchal world.Fierce Females on Television shows how, even with their captivating mix of melodrama, mystery, magic, and martial arts, these shows nevertheless represent the audience’s own desires and fears. Finally, viewers of science fiction, fantasy, spy, and political shows have strong, modern women to watch, admire, and emulate.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-10-15
Mått157 x 236 x 24 mm
Vikt526 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCultural History of Television
Antal sidor252
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781538165652

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Nicole Evelina is a USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction, non-fiction, and women’s fiction. Her books have won more than 50 awards, including four Book of the Year designations. She was named Missouri’s Top Independent Author by Library Journal and Biblioboard as the winner of the Missouri Indie Author Project in 2018 and has been awarded the North Street Book Prize and the Sarton Women’s Book Award. In addition to books, her writing has appeared in The Huffington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Independent Journal, Curve Magazine and numerous historical publications. Her other book in the Cultural History of Television series is Sex and the City: A Cultural History.

IntroductionPART I: THE SHOWS AND THEIR LEADING LADIESWomen in Fantasy and Science Fiction ProgramsSmart Spies and Political ParagonsPART II: THE ISSUESThe Influence of Third- and Fourth-Wave FeminismThe Real Meaning of Female StrengthFemale Friendships and FamilyThe Revolution Will Be Televised: Fighting the PatriarchyWomen and SexDiversity’s Many FormsRedemption NarrativesConclusionEpisode GuideAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

This entertaining study from novelist Evelina surveys how, since the mid-1990s, a new crop of shows has centered around 'stronger' and 'more independent' female leads than the medium had previously seen. She suggests that such shows as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Alias, and Jessica Jones foreground the concerns of ordinary women, even when their protagonists have extraordinary abilities, marking a shift from the working mothers (Clair Huxtable in The Cosby Show) or unrelatable superheroes (The Bionic Woman) that had been the norm.... [F]ans will enjoy the fresh insights into some old favorites.