Full Description
This book explores the changing portrayal of leading female characters in 21st Century security TV - shows set behind the scenes of democratic regimes facing multifaceted threats, from jihadist terrorism to health risks.
Offering an in-depth examination of several case studies, the authors speak to a larger debate on the differences of women's representations in security TV series within and between geographical and cultural areas. Beginning with a definition of this popular genre of TV series and highlighting its specificities, the book brings together researchers from media studies, humanities, and gender studies to interrogate new forms of visibility of female figures in popular culture.
This book will appeal to scholars, postgraduate students, and research students working in film studies, media studies, popular culture studies, gender studies, philosophy, and sociology.
Contents
Introduction. Grammar of Understanding: Ways of Being, Feeling and Seeing Women in Security Television
1. Women Are Taking the Lead! Focus on the Character of Claire Underwood in House of Cards
2. Nothing New in the East: Instrumentalization of Women in Turkish Security Series
3. Dystopia as Empowerment? The Case of Sister Night in Watchmen
4. Emotional Warfare and Global Conflict in Homeland and The Americans
5. I Am Queen Sono: A Spy Series Represents Africa
6. Desperate Housewives at War with ETA: Patria (HBO Spain, 2020)
7. Gender, Genre, and Generative AI Representation: Regressive Simulacra in The Capture
8. Navigating Contradictions: The Ambivalent Portrayal of Women in the Russian Series Sleepers
9. Gender and Geopolitics: Behind the Scenes of Deep State with Sara Johnson.
10. Women as security workers: from the individual to collective care.
11. "Why Did You Have To Do This?" Beyond Controversy, An Online Reception Analysis of Audience's Comments on the Last Season of Killing Eve
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