Jane Arthurs
Sex and the City and consumer culture: Remediating postfeminist drama
Arthurs, Jane
Authors
Contributors
Charlotte Brunsdon
Editor
Lynn Spigel
Editor
Abstract
Sex and the City became central to debates about postfeminist culture following its global impact at the centre of a culture of female fandom. Its success and influence is symptomatic of the cultural and economic forces shaping television in the digital era, and offers a case study of how the deregulation, commercialisation and proliferation of television into multiple channels have enabled a new form of sexualised address in which women’s sexual desire is central. But this is expressed through an ironic aesthetic which offers a ‘complicit critique’ of the women’s lifestyle and their commodified relation to their bodies and identity.
Citation
Arthurs, J. (2008). Sex and the City and consumer culture: Remediating postfeminist drama. In C. Brunsdon, & L. Spigel (Eds.), Feminist Television Criticism (41-56). Maidenhead and New York: Open University Press
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2008 |
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Peer Reviewed | Not Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 2nd ed |
Pages | 41-56 |
Book Title | Feminist Television Criticism |
ISBN | 9780335225446 |
Keywords | Sex and the city, digital, television, postfeminism |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1016722 |
Publisher URL | http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0335225446.html |