HBO's Girls: Questions of Gender, Politics, and Millennial Angst
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (845 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1443860344 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 239 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is the author of Genre, Gender and the Effects of Neoliberalism, the co-editor of The Millennials on Film and Television and The 21st Century Superhero, and the author of two Greek books on film adaptation and the Hollywood romantic comedy. Tally has also written on the marketing of teens in Hollywood, on the representation of middle-aged women's sexuality in popular culture, and on changing gender roles as portrayed in television series from the 1960s-90s. Margaret Tally is Chair of the Policy Studies Programs and Professor of Social Policy in the School for Graduate Studies at the State University of New York, Empire State College. Dr Kaklamanidou is currently working on a monograph on the political dimension of Robert Redford's directorial oeuvre. About the Author Betty Kaklamanidou is Visiting Research Fellow at the Universit
This collection is the first to discuss the cultural, political and social implications of this innovative series. The show explores the lives of four female friends living in Brooklyn, two years after their college graduation, as they try to support themselves with low-paying jobs, and deal with various struggles around relationships, careers, and friendships. The HBO half-hour sitcom, created, written and starring Lena Dunham, premiered on April 15th 2012 after receiving a flood of initial buzz and criticism, both positive and negative. This variety of perspectives endeavors to explain why Girls has had the profound cultural impact it has made, in the short time it has been on the air.. The contributors examine Girls through a variety of lenses: sexual, racial, gender, relationships between the male and female charact
In 2011, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to conduct research in New York. . She is the author of Genre, Gender and the Effects of Neoliberalism, the co-editor of The Millennials on Film and Television and The 21st Century Superhero, and the author of two Greek books on film adaptation and the Hollywood romantic comedy. She is the author of Television Culture and Women's Lives, the co-editor of The Millennials on Film and Television, a cont