Post-feminist impasses in popular heroine television : the Persephone complex /: the Persephone complex. ([2015])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Post-feminist impasses in popular heroine television : the Persephone complex /: the Persephone complex. ([2015])
- Main Title:
- Post-feminist impasses in popular heroine television : the Persephone complex
- Further Information:
- Note: Alison Horbury.
- Authors:
- Horbury, Alison, 1979-
- Contents:
- 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;
- Publisher Details:
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations
- Subjects:
- 791.436522
Women on television
Heroines on television
Sex role on television
Feminism
Gender Studies
Feminism & Feminist Theory
Society & social sciences
Media studies
On television - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781137511386
1137511389 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781137511362
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
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- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.38055
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