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020 $a9781137511362 (hardback)
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050 00 $aPN1992.8.W65$bH67 2015
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084 $aSOC010000$aSOC032000$aSOC052000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aHorbury, Alison,$d1979-$eauthor.
245 10 $aPost-feminist impasses in popular heroine television :$bthe Persephone complex /$cAlison Horbury, University of Melbourne, Australia.
264 1 $aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;$aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2015.
300 $aviii, 217 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Alison Horbury investigates the reprisal of the myth of Persephone - a mother-daughter plot of separation and initiation - in post-feminist television cultures where, she argues, it functions as a symptom expressing a complex around the question of sexual difference - what Lacan calls 'sexuation', where this question has been otherwise foreclosed. She takes four television heroines dramatizing this Persephone symptom - Ally McBeal, Sydney Bristow, Veronica Mars, and Meredith Grey - to show what is unconscious in this symptom, and identifies an impasse in feminist cultural criticisms as they respond to post-feminist cultures where ideas about feminine sexuation conflict with poststructuralist thought on the topic of 'woman'. She introduces psychoanalytic approaches to the novel to rethink the engagement of audiences with long-form serial narrative, and suggests that post-feminist discourses manifesting in Persephone's story offer us a cultural symptom that, when analysed, offers us new reflections on feminism today"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Why Persephone? 1.The myth of Persephone & The hymn to Demeter 2. Persephone in heroine television: The post-feminist Impasse 3. Persephone as narrative symptom: narrative transactions in long-form viewership 4.Persephone as epistemological impasse: the real body of Sydney Bristow and 'The woman here depicted' 5. Persephone as methodological impasse: feminine jouissance in Veronica's 'Two stories' 6. Persephone as historical impasse: 'Confrontation and accommodation' of the post-feminist heroine Conclusion -- The Persephone complex.
650 0 $aWomen on television.
650 0 $aHeroines on television.
650 0 $aSex role on television.
600 00 $aPersephone$c(Greek deity)$xOn television.
650 0 $aFeminism.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.$2bisacsh
852 00 $bglx$hPN1992.8.W65$iH67 2015