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Screen Serialities Ser.: Gender and Seriality : Practices and Politics of Contemporary US Television by Maria Sulimma (2022, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherEdinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press
ISBN-101474473962
ISBN-139781474473965
eBay Product ID (ePID)2328310332
Product Key Features
Number of Pages264 Pages
Publication NameGender and Seriality : Practices and Politics of Contemporary Us Television
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2022
SubjectTelevision / Direction & Production, Television / History & Criticism, Television / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPerforming Arts
AuthorMaria Sulimma
SeriesScreen Serialities Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
ReviewsThis is a densely argued book, weaving a complex tapestry of concepts and metaphorical categories which Sulimma uses to explore 'the processes by which serial television develops gendered identities and how these processes rely on different modes of audience feedback' (p. 217). It is beautifully written and all three case studies are satisfyingly detailed and nuanced., Sulimma convincingly argues that each show encourages different forms of audience engagement and fan practices through distinct uses of seriality and gendered character portrayals., [Offers a] compelling study of the social impact of seriality and serves as a starting point to inspire further scholarship in the multidisciplinary study of serial television., In this timely, important, intervention in gender and media studies, Maria Sulimma focuses on television's re-positioning in recent years as a site of great gender complexity and virtuosic seriality. She works from a very full definition of the medium that encompasses DVD extras, interviews, recaps and fan discourse., Gender and Seriality is a provocative text, offering an interdisciplinary, intersectional methodology that deepens both the disciplines of gender studies and media studies through sophisticated analyses of seriality. Its accessible language, cogent formulations, and stimulating proposals will make excellent reading for anyone interested in gender and media.
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal791.456521
Table Of ContentIntroduction: Serial Genders, Gendered SerialitiesSerial TV Criticism and Girls1. The Thinkpiece Seriality of Girls 2. Carousel: Gendering through Controversy 3. Navigating Discourses of Universality and Specificity: 'The (Feminist) Voice of a Generation?'Television Audience Engagement and How to Get Away with Murder4. The Looped Seriality of How to Get Away with Murder 5. Outward Spiral: Gendering through Recognisability 6. Evoking Discourses of Progressivism, Social Activism, and Identity Politics: 'Such an Important Episode!'Television Authorship and The Walking Dead7. The Paratext Seriality of The Walking Dead 8. Palimpsest: Gendering through Accountability 9. Neoliberalising Discourses of Serialised Survivalism: 'You make it ... until you don't'Conclusion: Archiving Snapshots
SynopsisThe notion of seriality and serial identity performance runs as a strong undercurrent through much of the fields of gender studies, feminist theory and queer studies, although the explicit analysis of a serial enactment of gender is surprisingly rare. Whereas media studies and cultural studies-based seriality scholarship can often overlook gender as an ongoing process, this book defines gender as a serial and discursively produced, intersectional entanglement of different practices and agencies. It argues that serial storytelling offers such complex negotiations of identity that it is never adequate to consider the 'results' of televisual gender performances as separate from the processes that produce them. As such, gender performances are not restricted to individual television programmes themselves, but are also located in official paratexts, such as making-of documentaries, interviews with writers and actors, as well as in cultural sites like online viewer discussions, recaps and fan fiction. With case studies of series such as Girls, How to Get Away With Murder and The Walking Dead, 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 which viewer practices these narratives seek to trigger and draw on in the process., 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.
LC Classification NumberPN1992.8.S44
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