Wendy A. Burns-Ardolino

TV Female Foursomes and Their Fans

Featuring The Golden Girls, Designing Women, Living Single, Sex and the City, Girlfriends, Cashmere Mafia and Hot in Cleveland

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Produktbeschreibung

The Golden Girls, Designing Women, Living Single, Sex and the City, Girlfriends, Cashmere Mafia and Hot in Cleveland stand out as some of America's favorite television series. Their lovable "female foursome" characters engage in witty banter as they challenge American stereotypes about sex, love, family, work and community. These sitcoms and comedy-dramas live on as cable TV re-runs and through online fan communities, demonstrating mass appeal across generations of women and men. Connecting fan commentary with analysis by television scholars, this book explores the development of these series from the 1980s on, with a focus on the role of fan cultures in "reproducing" these popular American shows.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780786458523
• ISBN-10: 0786458526
• Artikelnr.: 42800106

Autorenporträt

Wendy A. Burns-Ardolino currently serves as the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Houston-Downtown. She has taught a variety of courses across the disciplines of cultural, media and women's studies and published in the areas of body studies, feminist theory, globalization, and popular culture. Dr. Burns-Ardolino holds a PhD in Cultural Studies and MA in English (Teaching of Writing and Literature) from George Mason University. She lives in Houston, Texas with her family.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Why Female Foursomes? 1.
Beyond the Binary: Femininity & Feminism on Television 2.
Matriarchs, Naïfs, Jezebels & Virgins 3.
Queer Telefeminism, Gender Trouble & Female Foursome Friendships 4.
Unruly Women, Femme Fatales, Gold Diggers & Dixie Bitches 5.
Sisterhood in the Global City: Career Women, Working Moms & Golden Girls 6.
Having & Not Having It All: Everywoman, Superwoman & Strongblackwoman 7.
Televised Sisterhood & Solidarity Appendix A: Which of The Golden Girls Are You? Appendix B: Which Designing Women Character Are You? Appendix C: Which Living Single Character Are You? Appendix D: Which Girlfriends Character Are You? Appendix E: Which Sex and the City Girl Are You? Chapter Notes Bibliography Index