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Gender, violence and popular culture : telling stories / Laura J. Shepherd.
Van Pelt Library PN1992.8.S44 S54 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shepherd, Laura J.
- Series:
- Popular culture and world politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role on television.
- Women on television.
- Violence on television.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- United States.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 153 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
- Summary:
- 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.
- The book makes a unique theoretical contribution to the 'narrative turn' in International Relations (IR) by illustrating the ways in which popular culture and global politics are intertwined and how we make sense of our worlds through these two frames. Methodologically, the book enhances discourse-theoretical analysis in IR through its incorporation of methods from narratology and film studies. The book proposes an aesthetic ethicopolitical approach to global politics which challenges us to interrogate how it becomes possible that we think what we think, it challenges the truths that we hold to be self-evident and that which we take to be common sense. It demands that we think carefully, critically, uncomfortably, about our world(s)-even when we're 'only' watching television. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Telling stories: an essay on gender, violence and popular culture
- Morality, legality and gender violence in Angel
- Policing the boundaries of desire in Buffy the vampire slayer
- Gender, ethics and political community in Generation kill
- Feminism and political strategy in The west wing
- Gender, violence and security in Oz
- Security and governance after modernity in Firefly
- Hope and the politics of natality in The corner
- Points de capiton: aesthetics, ethics and critique.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [132]-147) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415517959
- 0415517958
- 9780415525916
- 0415525918
- 9780203105030
- 0203105036
- OCLC:
- 759915268
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