Fantasy Girls: Gender in the New Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (508 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0847698351 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Elyce Rae Helford is associate professor of English at Middle Tennessee State.
Fantasy Girls seeks to explore as well as challenge the power and the promises of this recent media phenomenon. Programs covered are Babylon 5, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Disney's Cinderella, Lois and Clark, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Star Trek: Voyager, The XFiles, Third Rock from the Sun, and Xena: Warrior Princess.. These essays explore the contradictions and limitations inherent in the genre, forcing readers to take a fresh and critical look through a variety of lenses including girl power, postfeminism, cyborg feminism, disability politics, queer studies, and much more. Such TV programming offers the exciting opportunity to rethink established gender norms, but how far is it really pushing the limits of the status quo? Amidst the exuberant optimism of fanzines and doting fan websites, the contributors to this volume endeavor to provide us with a much needed critical analysis of this contemporary trend
(Herman Gray, author of Watching Race: Television and the Struggle for 'Blackness')The essays are consistent in quality and approach, and yield astute if not necessarily novel or groundbreaking readings of the various programs. (Review of Communication)Covering television shows as diverse as Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, to The X-Files, to Xena, Warrior Princess and Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, the essays in this collection offer a thought-provoking exploration of gender roles in today's science fiction and fantasy television programming. (Andrea Press, associate director of media studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)The essays collected in Fantasy Girls look to some of the most popular and innovative television programming of th
Daubas said a seemingly sexist title for a thought provoking book. Focusing on female characters in sci-fi, fantastic, fantasy TV series, FANTASY GIRLS is a collection of essays writen by scholars who are also fans and take pop culture as seriously as it should be. The works presented here are very diverse and deal with global themes from the shows considered. However, for the average reader, ie, someone not academicly working on media/TV/cinema/women studies or sociology, the very precise and scholarly nature of the contributions might make it less entic. Great Book Krystina Very interesting book. Shipped quickly and brand new. Would recommend this book to book clubs. Overall no issues so rated this a 5. "love this book" according to S. Destfino. I bought this for research on a paper I was writing and ended up using this as the main point of reference. I focused on the Xena piece and loved it, but the others are good, too.