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  title info:
    title: Women in Neoliberal Postfeminist Television Drama
    sub title: Representing Gendered Experiences of the Second World War
  name:
    name part: Mahoney, Cat.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 134 p. online resource.
  abstract: "In this insightful book, Cat Mahoney offers a fascinating analysis of contemporary TV dramas such as Home Fires, Land Girls and The Bletchley Circle. Developing the idea that history is told through the preoccupations of the present, she argues compellingly that these are postfeminist dramas which work through troubling ideas about heteronormative romance, domesticity, beauty and whiteness, while reinforcing the idea that feminism as a political movement is not necessary. A bold and original contribution to television studies, gender studies and popular history." ̶ Rosalind Gill, City, University of London, UK By examining contemporary television drama set during and immediately after the Second World War, this book illustrates the ways in which postfeminism has shaped representations of women in contemporary culture. Mahoney offers a new perspective to debates that have previously been concerned with questions of historical accuracy. She argues that depictions of women from the past in modern television drama spawn from the neoliberal postfeminist media climate which originated in the 1990s. These depictions respond to a cultural need to naturalise and de-historicise a version of neoliberal postfeminist femininity that is compatible with the current media climate and far more reflective of the concerns of the present than any "real" or lived experience of women in the past. The result of this process of naturalisation is the assertion that postfeminist values are natural and eternal, rather than a product of the 1980s economic turn and the present political moment. By identifying and interrogating postfeminist norms within four television drama series produced since the 2008 financial crash, this book argues that postfeminism is a dominant structuring force in their depiction of female characters and of the past.
  table of contents: Introduction: Postfeminism, Neo-Liberalism and the Popular Imaginary of the Second World War -- Chapter 1: Land Girls - Finding a Feminine Space (Female Ensemble Drama) -- Chapter 2: The Bletchley Circle - The Horror of Transgression -- Chapter 3: Marvel's Agent Carter - [Peggy punches him in the face] -- Chapter 4: Home Fires - Deconstructing the Domestic Ideal -- Chapter 5: Conclusions.
  note: by Cat Mahoney.
  subject:
    topic: Culture
  subject:
    topic: Gender
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures and television
  subject:
    topic: Culture and Gender
  subject:
    topic: Screen Studies
  classification: HM621-656
  classification: 306
  classification: 305.3
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783030304492
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30449-2
  record info:
    record creation date: 191107
    record change date: 20191220130554.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-30449-2