All-American TV Crime Drama: Feminism and Identity Politics in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (Library of Gender and Popular Culture) - Hardcover

Moorti, Sujata; Cuklanz, Lisa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1784534293 ISBN 13: 9781784534295

Verlag: I.B. Tauris, 2016

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Críticas:

'Cuklanz and Moorti's book illustrates the necessity and value of analyzing those kinds of long-running, well-watched TV series often disqualified from academic canons. Their study of Law & Order SVU brilliantly illuminates its hybridization of melodrama and police procedural, the ways it indexes shifts in US rape culture and its production of what the authors call a "misogynist feminism."' - Diane Negra, Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture, University College Dublin

Reseña del editor:

Law and Order Special Victims Unit (SVU) is more popular than any other American police procedural television series, but how does its unique focus on sex crimes reflect contemporary popular culture and feminist critique, whilst also recasting the classic crime narrative? All-American TV Crime Drama is the first dedicated study of SVU and its treatment of sexual violence, gender and criminality. The book uses detailed textual and visual analyses of episodes to illuminate the assumptions underpinning the programme. Although SVU engages with issues pertaining to feminism and gender it still relies upon traditional and misogynistic tropes such as false rape charges and the monstrous mother to undermine positive views of the feminine. The show, and its backdrop, New York City thus become a stage on which national concerns about women, gender roles, the family and race are carried out. Moorti and Cuklanz unpack how the show has become a crucible for examining current attitudes towards these issues and include an analysis of its reception by its many fans in over 30 countries.

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• Verlag: I.B. Tauris
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1784534293
• ISBN 13: 9781784534295
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256