There She Goes Again

Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises

Aviva Dove-Viebahn (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

212 Seiten

2023
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-3612-9 (ISBN)

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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.

AVIVA DOVE-VIEBAHN is an assistant professor of film and media studies at Arizona State University, as well as a frequent contributor to Ms. magazine and a screenwriter. She is the coeditor of Public Feminisms: From Academy to Community.

Introduction

1. Why Feminine Intuition?: The Gendering of Knowledge and Power

2. Seriality and ‘Strong Female Characters’: The Double Bind of Women’s Empowerment

3. From Girl Power to Intersectional Sisterhood: Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of Belonging

4. Motherhood and Myth: Inside and Outside the Family Circle

5. At the End of the World: Apocalyptic Bodies and the Feminine Sublime

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.12.2023
Zusatzinfo	13 color illustrations
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	64 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-9788-3612-0 / 1978836120
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-3612-9 / 9781978836129
Zustand	Neuware