Geraldine Harris

Beyond representation (eBook, ePUB)

Television drama and the politics and aesthetics of identity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Beyond representation explores whether the last thirty years witnessed signs of 'progress' or 'progressiveness' in the representation of 'marginalised' or subaltern identity categories within television drama in Britain and the US. In doing so, it interrogates some of the key assumptions concerning the relationship between aesthetics and the politics of identity that have influenced and informed television drama criticism during this period.

This book examines ideas around politics and aesthetics, which emerge from such theories as Marxist-socialism and postmodernism, feminism and postmodern feminism, anti-racism and postcolonialism, queer theory and theories of globalisation, and evaluates their impact on television criticism and on television as an institution. These discussions are consolidated through a number of case studies that offer analyses of a range of television drama texts including 'Ally McBeal', 'Supply and Demand', 'The Bill', 'Second Generation', 'Star Trek: Enterprise', 'Queer as Folk', 'Metrosexuality' and 'The Murder of Stephen Lawrence'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847796684
• Artikelnr.: 42372231

Autorenporträt

Geraldine Harris is Lecturer in the Department of Theatre Studies at Lancaster University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Beyond the politics of identity? 1. Beyond realism? Modes of
reading in Marxist-socialist and post-Marxist socialist, television drama
criticism 2. The end(s) of feminism(s) from Madonna to Ally McBeal.? 3.
Divided duties: diasporic subjectivities and 'race relations' dramas
(Supply and Demand, The Bill, Second Generation) 4. The world of
enterprise: myths of the global and global myths (Star Trek) 5. Only human
nature after all? Romantic attractions and queer dilemmas (Queer as Folk)
Conclusion: Beyond (simple) representation? Metrosexuality and The Murder
of Stephen Lawrence