Alison Horbury

Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television (eBook, PDF)

The Persephone Complex

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Produktbeschreibung

Alison Horbury investigates the reprisal of the myth of Persephone - a mother-daughter plot of separation and initiation - in post-feminist television cultures where, she argues, it functions as a symptom expressing a complex around the question of sexual difference - what Lacan calls 'sexuation', where this question has been otherwise foreclosed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 217
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137511379
• Artikelnr.: 43589035

Autorenporträt

Alison Horbury completed her doctoral degree in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where she currently lectures in the fields of Media Studies, Gender Studies, and Communications.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Why Persephone?
1. The Myth of Persephone & The Hymn to Demeter
2. Persephone in Heroine Television: The Post-feminist Impasse
3. Persephone as Narrative Symptom: Narrative Transactions in Long-form Viewership
4. Persephone as Epistemological Impasse: The Real Body of Sydney Bristow and ' 'The Woman Here Depicted ' '
5. Persephone as Methodological Impasse: Feminine Jouissance in Veronica ' 's ' 'Two Stories ' '
6. Persephone as Historical Impasse: ' 'Confrontation and Accommodation ' ' of the Post-feminist Heroine
Conclusion - The Persephone Complex