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thirteen critical essays
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- [et al.]
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- 2016
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- VS 54 2016 - B
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- televisie, populaire cultuur, LHBT, intersectionaliteit, stereotypering, bundel
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- Since its 2013 premiere, Orange Is the New Black has become Netflix's most watched series, garnering critical praise and numerous awards and advancing the cultural phenomenon of binge-watching. . The series has sparked debate: does it celebrate diversity or is it told from the perspective of white privilege, with characters embodying some of the most racist and sexist stereotypes in television history? Examining the series from a feminist perspective, this book covers topics such as gender, race, class, sexuality, transgenderism, mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex, disability, and sexual assault.
new directions
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- Moseley, Rachel > (ed.)
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- Wheatley, Helen > (ed.)
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- Wood, Helen > (ed.)
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- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2017
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2017 - B
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- televisie, populaire cultuur, LHBT, etniciteit, huisvrouwen, identiteit, leefvormen, bundel
- Description
- The topics included in this book reach from television as material culture at the British exhibition in the first half of the twentieth century, women’s roles in television production past and present, to popular 1960s television such as The Liver Birds and, in the twenty-first century, highly successful programmes including Orange is the New Black, Call the Midwife, One Born Every Minute and Wanted Down Under.
travels in the transnational imaginary
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- Fitch, Melissa A.
- Publish Year
- 2015
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- WER 1A 2015 - B
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- dans, populaire cultuur, oorlog en vrede, LHBT, tweede wereldoorlog, muziek, televisie, globalisering
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- This book demonstrates the cultural impact of Argentine tango in the world by assembling an array of cultural narratives created in almost thirty countries. Topics include Tango Barbie and Ken, advertising for phone sex, the presence of tango in political upheavals in the Middle East and in animated Japanese children’s television programming, gay tango porn, tango orchestras and composers in World War II concentration camps, global tango protests aimed at reclaiming public space, the transformation of Buenos Aires as a result of tango tourism, and the use of tango for palliative care and to treat other ailments. They also include the global development of queer tango theory, activism, and festivals.
arguing my way through the TV revolution
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- Nussbaum, Emily
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2019 - B
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- televisie, populaire cultuur, seksueel geweld, etniciteit, LHBT, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
- Description
- In this collection Nussbaum writes about her passion for television, beginning with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the show that set her on a fresh intellectual path. She explores the rise of the female screw-up, the messy power of sexual violence on TV and the year that jokes helped elect a reality-television president. TThe book also includes an essay written during the year of #MeToo, wrestling with the question of what to do when the artist you love is a monster.
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