There She Goes Again : Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises / Aviva Dove-Viebahn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dove-Viebahn, Aviva Chantal Tamu, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in motion pictures.

Women on television.

Women in mass media.

Franchises (Retail trade).

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Bucknell University Press, [2024]

Summary:

There She Goes Again interrogates the representation of ostensibly powerful women in transmedia franchises, examining how presumed feminine traits-love, empathy, altruism, diplomacy-are alternately lauded and repudiated as possibilities for effecting long-lasting social change. By questioning how these franchises reimagine their protagonists over time, the book reflects on the role that gendered exceptionalism plays in social and political action, as well as what forms of knowledge and power are presumed distinctly feminine. The franchises explored in this book illustrate the ambivalent (post)feminist representation of women protagonists as uniquely gifted in ways both gendered and seemingly ungendered, and yet inherently bound to expressions of their femininity. At heart,There She Goes Again asks under what terms and in what contexts women protagonists are imagined, envisioned, embodied, and replicated in media. Especially now, in a period of gradually increasing representation, women protagonists demonstrate the importance of considering how we should define-and whether we need-feminine forms of knowledge and power.

Contents:

Cover

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: "It Was All in Harmony"-Musical Women in Austen's Culture / Linda Zionkowski with Miriam F. Hart

Part One: Representing the Female Performer

1. A Musical Room of Her Own: Musical Spaces in Jane Austen's Novels / Pierre Dubois

2. "Prima La Musica": Gentry Daughters at Play in Town, Country, and Continent, 1815-1825 / Kelly M. McDonald

3. Stage Fright: Female Musicians Crossing Musical Borders in Thicknesse's The School for Fashion and Burney's The Wanderer / Danielle Grover

Part Two: Women and the Market in Music

4. Women on the Title Page: Celebrity Endorsement of Musical Scores / Penelope Cave

5. The Lady's Choice: Women and the Purchase of Music through Subscription / Simon D. I. Fleming

6. Female Musical Entrepreneurship in the Eighteenth Century / Alison C. DeSimone

Part Three: Women as Critics and Fans

7. Women as Quiet Critics / Jane Girdham

8. Femininity and Foreignness in George Colman's Farce The Musical Lady / Leslie Ritchie

9. Georgian Fangirls: Women and Castrati in Eighteenth-Century London / Jeffrey A. Nigro

Part Four: Women and the Bardic Tradition

10. Anna Gordon and the Ballad Collectors / Ruth Perry

11. Antiquaries, Female Harpists, and the Survival of the Bardic Tradition / Devon R. Nelson

Part Five: Revisiting the Age of Austen

12. "That Ecstatic Delight": Gender and Performance in Adaptations of Sense and Sensibility / Gayle Magee

13. "Here's Harmony!": Music and Gender in Kirke Mechem's Pride &amp

Prejudice (2019) and Jonathan Dove's Mansfield Park (2011) / Juliette Wells

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-9788-3614-7

1-9788-3613-9

OCLC:

1420506753