Laura J Shepherd

Gender, Violence and Popular Culture

Telling Stories

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the intersection of gender and violence in popular culture. Drawing on the latest thinking in critical international relations, media and cultural studies and gender studies, it focuses in particular on a number of popular TV shows including Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Generation Kill, The Corner and The West Wing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780415517959
• ISBN-10: 0415517958
• Artikelnr.: 34560283

Autorenporträt

Laura J. Shepherd is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia

Inhaltsangabe

1. Telling stories: An essay on gender, violence and popular culture 2.
Morality, legality and gender violence in Angel 3. Policing the boundaries
of desire in Buffy the Vampire Slayer 4. Gender, ethics and political
community in Generation Kill 5. Feminism and political strategy in The West
Wing 6. Gender, violence and security in Oz 7. Security and governance
after modernity in Firefly 8. Hope and the politics of natality in The
Corner 9. Points de capiton: Aesthetics, ethics and critique