Beyond representation : television drama and the politics and aesthetics of identity /

Beyond representation poses the question as to whether over the last thirty years there have been 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...

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Main Author: Harris, Geraldine (Geraldine Mary)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2006
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: beyond the politics of identity?
  • Beyond realism? Modes of reading in Marxist-socialist and post-Marxist-socialist television drama criticism
  • The end(s) of feminism(s)? From Madonna to Ally McBeal
  • Divided duties: diasporic subjectivities and 'race relatioins' dramas (Supply and Demand, The Bill, Second Generation)
  • The world of enterprise: myths of the global and global myths (Star Trek)
  • Only human nature after all? Romantic attractions and queer dilemmas (Queer as folk)
  • Conclusion: beyond (simple) representation? Metrosexuality and The Murder of Stephen Lawrence.