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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465670303321

Autore

Harris Geraldine

Titolo

Beyond representation : Television drama and the politics and aesthetics of identity / / Geraldine Harris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-78170-101-6

1-84779-172-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Disciplina

791.4575

Soggetti

Multiculturalism - Political aspects

Television plays, American - History and criticism

Television plays, English - History and criticism

Television plays, English

Television plays, American

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published as hardback in 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

9780719074585; 9780719074585; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: beyond the politics of identity?; 1 Beyond realism? Modes of reading in Marxist-socialist and post-Marxist-socialist Television drama criticism; 2 The end(s) of feminism(s)? From Madonna to Ally McBeal; 3 Divided duties: diasporic subjectivities and 'race relations' dramas (Supply and Demand, The Bill, Second Generation); 4 The world of enterprise: myths of the global and global myths (Star Trek); 5 Only human nature after all? Romantic attractions and queer dilemmas (Queer as Folk)

Conclusion: beyond (simple) representation? Metrosexuality and The Murder of Stephen LawrenceReferences; Index

Sommario/riassunto

'Beyond Representation' poses the question as to whether over the last 30 years there have been signs of progress in the representation of 'marginalised' or subaltern identity categories, within television drama in Britain and the US.