Women in Neoliberal Postfeminist Television Drama Representing Gendered Experiences of the Second World War /

• Main Author: Mahoney, Cat (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Culture.; Gender.; Motion pictures and television.; Culture and Gender.; Screen Studies.

"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 w...

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.