{"product_id":"woman-up-invoking-feminism-in-quality-television-9780814346563","title":"Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eCritically analyzes the discursive relationship between cultural value and popular feminism in American television.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile American television has long relied on a strategic foregrounding of feminist politics to promote certain programming's cultural value, \u003ci\u003eWoman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television\u003c\/i\u003e is the first sustained critical analysis of the twenty-first-century resurgence of this tradition. In \u003ci\u003eWoman Up\u003c\/i\u003e, Julia Havas'scentral argument is that postmillennial \"feminist quality television\" springs from a rhetorical subversion of the (much-debated) masculine-coded \"quality television\" culture on the one hand and the dominance of postfeminist popular culture on the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePostmillennial quality television culture promotes the idea of aesthetic-generic hierarchies among different types of scripted programming. Its development has facilitated evaluative academic analyses of television texts based on aesthetic merit, producing a corpus of scholarship devoted to pinpointing where value resides in shows considered worthy of discussion. Other strands of television scholarship have criticized this approach for sidestepping the gendered and classed processes of canonization informing the phenomenon. \u003ci\u003eWoman Up\u003c\/i\u003e intervenes in this debate by reevaluating such approaches and insisting that rather than further fostering or critiquing already prominent processes of canonization, there is a need to interrogate the cultural forces underlying them. Via detailed analyses of four TV programs emerging in the early period of the \"feminist quality TV\" trend--\u003ci\u003e30\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eRock (2006-13), Parks and Recreation \u003c\/i\u003e(2009-15), \u003ci\u003e The Good Wife\u003c\/i\u003e (2009-16), and\u003ci\u003e Orange Is the New Black\u003c\/i\u003e (2013-19)--\u003ci\u003eWoman Up\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that such series mediate their cultural significance by combining formal aesthetic exceptionalism and a politicized rhetoric around a \"problematic\" postfeminism, thus linking ideals of political and aesthetic value.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eWoman Up\u003c\/i\u003ewill most appeal to students and scholars of cinema and media studies, feminist media studies, television studies, and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulia Havas is lecturer in media at De Montfort University, Leicester. She has published in the journals \u003ci\u003eTelevision and New Media\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAnimation Studies\u003c\/i\u003e and contributed chapters to the anthologies \u003ci\u003eHysterical! Women in American Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBinge-watching and Contemporary Television Research\u003c\/i\u003e. Her research focuses on Anglo-American television, the gender and race politics of popular media, streaming culture, Hungarian film and TV, and the transcultural travel of media.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wayne State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50383136194834,"sku":"9780814346563","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cef2a095-e3da-4c4e-b2d3-3c4e45aa5bd3.jpg?v=1728779253","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/woman-up-invoking-feminism-in-quality-television-9780814346563","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}