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Author Sulimma, Maria, 1985- author.

Title Gender and seriality : practices and politics of contemporary US television / Maria Sulimma
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 256 pages) : illustrations
Series Screen serialities
Screen serialities.
Contents Introduction: Serial Genders, Gendered Serialities -- The Thinkpiece Seriality of Girls -- Carousel: Gendering through Controversy -- Navigating Discourses of Universality and Specificity: The (Feminist) Voice of a Generation? -- The Looped Seriality of How to Get Away with Murder -- Outward Spiral: Gendering through Recognisability -- Evoking Discourses of Progressivism, Social Activism, and Identity Politics: Such an Important Episode! -- The Paratext Seriality of The Walking Dead -- Palimpsest: Gendering through Accountability -- Neoliberalising Discourses of Serialised Survivalism: You Make It ... Until You Don't -- Conclusion: Archiving Snapshots
Summary This book seeks to understand how gender as a practice is generated by television narratives in the overlapping of text, reception and production, and explores the viewer practices that these narratives seek to trigger and draw on in the process
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, April 22, 2021)
Subject Women on television.
Sex role on television.
Television programs -- United States
PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General
Sex role on television
Television programs
Women on television
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1474473970
9781474473972
9781474473989
1474473989