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Gender and sexual dissidence on Catalan and Spanish television series : an intercultural analysis /

This book examines how gender roles and non-heteronormative sexualities are constructed in Spanish and Catalan television series. In the first part, which focuses on the construction of gender roles in Catalan soap operas, it applies the analytical paradigms founded by Anglo-Saxon feminist scholars...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grassi, Silvia, 1984- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Gender roles in soap operas: a comparative analysis of Catalan, British, and American serials
  • A cal to action; television as a site for feminist struggle
  • How and why women watch television: from content analysis to audience analysis
  • Soap operas: a 'female' genre?
  • How and why women watch soap operas: an analysis of this genre's appeal for an audience constructed as female
  • Are soap operas all the same? An analysis of national differences with in the genre
  • Are soap operas a safe place? An analysis of models of family and the construction of a sense of community in soaps
  • Learning from soap operas: an analysis of soaps' didactic aspirations
  • Conclusions
  • Sexual dissidence on TV: a comparative analysis of Catalan, Spanish, British and American series
  • Do words count? A terminological clarification
  • An overview of studies of non-heteronormative content on TV
  • Why television counts: the importance of non-heteronormative media images
  • Normalisation: who has the right or want to be normal?
  • Television's construction of sexual dissidence: the dominant paradigm of essentialism
  • Constructing a collective history
  • Television's depiction of the role of the school system in sustaining heteronomraivity
  • Conclusions
  • Conclusion.