Post-feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television [electronic resource] : The Persephone Complex /
Horbury, Alison.author.
Alison Horbury investigates the reprisal of the myth of Persephone - a mother-daughter plot of separation and initiation - in post-feminist television cultures where, she argues, it functions as a symptom expressing a complex around the question of sexual difference - what Lacan calls 'sexuation', where this question has been otherwise foreclosed.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Alison Horbury investigates the reprisal of the myth of Persephone - a mother-daughter plot of separation and initiation - in post-feminist television cultures where, she argues, it functions as a symptom expressing a complex around the question of sexual difference - what Lacan calls 'sexuation', where this question has been otherwise foreclosed.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Why Persephone? 1.The myth of Persephone and The hymn to Demeter 2. Persephone in heroine television: The post-feminist Impasse 3. Persephone as narrative symptom: narrative transactions in long-form viewership 4.Persephone as epistemological impasse: the real body of Sydney Bristow and 'The woman here depicted' 5. Persephone as methodological impasse: feminine jouissance in Veronica's 'Two stories' 6. Persephone as historical impasse: 'Confrontation and accommodation' of the post-feminist heroine -- Conclusion: The Persephone complex.
Persephone (Greek deity)
Culture—Study and teaching.
Sociology.
Feminist theory.
Communication.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Gender Studies.
Feminism.
Media Studies.