Post-feminism(s), Quality Television and Breaking Bad
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21-07-2015
Francisco Javier López Rodríguez
Abstract
TV series from the United States of America are an excellent object of study to reflect on the construction, representation and projection of the social subjects. Using post-feminist theories and concepts to consider the portrayal of female subjects, this article offers an analysis of the female characters of Breaking Bad. The methodology draws from concepts from Audiovisual Narrative and Gender Studies, and the discussion of the results is organized around three main core points that shape the construction of femininity in this show: maternity, sexuality and field of action.
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López Rodríguez, F. J. (2015). Post-feminism(s), Quality Television and Breaking Bad. ZER - Journal of Communication Studies, 20(38). https://doi.org/10.1387/zer.14790
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RAYA, Irene (2012). Los modelos actuales de heroína en la ficción televisiva norteamericana de contenido maravilloso. Análisis de casos: Buffy Summers, Kara Thrace y Sookie Stackhouse. Libro de Actas del I Congreso Internacional de Comunicación y Género, pp. 1336-1363.
TASKER, Yvonne; NEGRA, Diane (eds.) (2007). Interrogating Post-feminism. Gender and the politics of popular culture. Durham: Duke University Press.
TYLER, Imogen (2011). Pregnant Beauty: Maternal Femininities under Neoliberalism. En: GILL, Rosalind; SCHARFF, Christina (eds.). New Femininities. Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 21-36.
VERNAY, Denise du (2012). Breaking Bonds. En KOEPSHELL, David R.; ARP, Robert Arp (eds.). Breaking Bad and Philosophy. Badder living through Chemistry. Chicago: Open Court Publishing, pp.191-199.
WATERS, Melanie (ed.). (2011). Women on Screen. Feminism and Femininity in Visual Culture. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
BORDWELL, Benjamin; GENZ, Stéphanie (eds.) (2007). Postfeminist Gothic. Critical Interventions in Contemporary Culture. Palgrave Macmillan: Hampshire.
BROOKS, Ann (1997). Postfeminisms. Feminism, cultural theory and cultural forms. Routledge: Londres.
BUCKLE, Cara Louise; OTT, Brian (2008). Fasion(able/ing) selves: Consumption, Identity and Sex and the City. En: LEVERETTE, Marc; OTT, Brian; BUCKLE, Cara Louise (eds.). It's Not TV: Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era. Routledge: Nueva York, pp. 209-226.
CARDWELL, Sarah. (2007). Is Quality Television Any Good? Generic Distinctions, Evaluations, and the Troubling Matter of Critical Judgement. En MCCABE, Janet; AKASS, Kim (eds.). Quality TV. Contemporary American Television and Beyond. Londres: IB Tauris, pp. 19-34.
CASCAJOSA, Concepción (2009). La nueva edad dorada de la televisión norteamericana. En Secuencias: Revista de historia del cine, nº 29, 2009, pp. 7-31.
CASETTI, Francesco; DI CHIO, Federico (2003). Cómo analizar un film. Barcelona: Paidós.
CHICHARRO, Mar (2013). Representaciones de la mujer en la ficción postfeminista: Ally McBeal, Sex and the City y Desperate Housewives. En: Papers, 98, 1, pp. 11-31.
COBO, Sergio; HERNÁNDEZ-SANTAOLALLA, Víctor (eds.) (2013). Breaking bad: 530 gramos (de papel) para serieadictos no rehabilitados. Madrid: Errata Naturae.
DOANNE, Mary Anne (1991). Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis. Routledge: New York.
FAUCETTE, Brian (2014). Taking Control: Male Angst and the Re-Emergence of Hegemonic Masculinity in Breaking Bad. En: PIERSON, David (ed.). Breaking Bad: Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series. Lexington Books: Plymouth.
FERNÁNDEZ PICHEL, Samuel (2013). Amado monstruo: lo heroico y lo monstruoso en Walter White. En: COBO, Sergio; HERNÁNDEZ-SANTAOLALLA, Víctor (eds.). Breaking bad: 530 gramos (de papel) para serieadictos no rehabilitados. Madrid: Errata Naturae, pp. 105-122.
GAMBLE, Sara (ed.) (2006). The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism. Londres: Routledge.
GENZ, Stephanie; BRABON, Benjamin A. (2009). Postfeminism. Cultural Texts and Theories. Edimburgo: Edinburgh University Press.
GERHARD, Jane (2005). Sex and the City. En: Feminist Media Studies, 5:1, pp. 37-49.
GILL, Rosalind (2007): Postfeminist media culture. Elements of a sensibility. En: European Journal of Cultural Studies,vol. 10 (2), pp. 147-166.
GILL, Rosalind; SCHARFF, Christina (eds.) (2011). New Femininities. Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
GILL, Rosalind (2014). Postfeminist sexual culture. En CARTER, Cynthia; STEINER, Linda; McLAUGHLIN, Lisa (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender. Oxon: Routledge, pp. 589-599.
GUNN, Gunn (2012). Entrevistada por Sean T. Collins en Rolling Stone. Disponible en http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/q-a-breaking-bad-star-anna-gunn-on-skylers-suffering-20120730 (consultado el 25 de enero de 2013).
GWYNNE, Joel; MULLER, Nadine (2013) Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
JOHNSON, Merri Lisa (ed.) (2007). Third Wave Feminism and Television: Jane Puts it in a Box. Londres: IB Tauris.
KOEPSELL, David; ARP, Robert (2012). Breaking bad and philosophy. Badder Living through Chemistry. Chicago: Open Court.
LANDRUM, Jason (2015). Say My Name: The Fantasy of Liberated Masculinity. En: BLEVINS, Jacob; WOOD, Dafydd (eds.). The Methods of Breaking Bad: Essays on Narrative, Character and Ethics. McFarland: North Carolina, pp. 94-109.
LAURETIS, Teresa (1992). Alicia ya no: feminismo, semiótica, cine. Madrid: Cátedra.
LEVERETTE, Marc; OTT, Brian; BUCKLE, Cara Louise (eds.) (2008). It's Not TV: Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era. Routledge: Nueva York.
LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ, Francisco Javier; GARCÍA, Juan A. (2013). Arquetipos femeninos en Juego de Tronos: tipología y roles de género. En LOZANO, Javier; RAYA, Irene; LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ, Francisco Javier (eds.) Reyes, espadas, cuervos y dragones. Estudio del fenómeno televisivo Juego de Tronos. Madrid: Fragua, pp. 201-228.
LOTZ, Amanda D. (2001). Postfeminist Television Criticism: Rehabilitating Critical Terms and Identifying Postfeminist Attributes. En Feminist Media Studies, 1:1, pp. 105-121.
LUMBY, Catherine (2014). Post-postfeminism. En: CARTER, Cynthia; STEINER, Linda; McLAUGHLIN, Lisa (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender. Oxon: Routledge, pp. 589-599.
MACHLIDEON, Veronique (2000). Masquerade: A Femenine or Feminist Strategy. En: RUDNYTSKY, Peter L.; GORDON, Andrew (eds.). Psychoanalyses/Feminisms. Albany: State University of New York, pp. 103-120.
McCABE, Janet; AKASS, Kim (eds.) (2007). Quality TV. Contemporary American Television and Beyond. Londres: IB Tauris.
McKENNA, Susan (2002). The Queer Insistence of Ally McBeal: Lesbian Chic, Postfeminism, and Lesbian Reception. En: Reception, The Communication Review, 5:4, pp. 285-314.
McROBBIE, Angela (2009). The Aftermath of Feminism Gender, Culture and Social Change. California: Sage Publications.
MOSELEY, Rachel; READ; Jacinda (2002). "Having it Ally": Popular Television (Post-)Feminism. En: Feminist Media Studies, 2:2, pp. 231-249.
NEGRA, Diane (2004). Quality Postfeminism? Sex and the Single Girl on HBO. En Genders, 39. Disponible en http://www.genders.org/g39/g39_negra.html (consultado el 29 de enero de 2013).
NEGRA, Diane (2009). What a Girl Wants? Fantasizing the Reclamation of Self in Postfeminism. Oxon: Routledge.
ORIA, Beatriz (2014). Talking Dirty on Sex and the City: Romance, Intimacy, Friendship. Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield.
OULETTE, Laurie (2002). Victims No More: Postfeminism, Television, and Ally McBeal. En: The Communication Review, 5:4, pp. 315-335.
PIERSON, David (ed.) (2014). Breaking Bad: Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series. Lexington Books: Plymouth.
PRICE WOOD, Rebeca (2015). Breaking Bad Stereotypes about Postpartum: A Case for Skyler White. En: BLEVINS, Jacob; WOOD, Dafydd (eds.). The Methods of Breaking Bad: Essays on Narrative, Character and Ethics. McFarland: North Carolina, pp. 132-146.
POE, Philip (2015). Patriarchy and the Heisenberg Principle. En: BLEVINS, Jacob; WOOD, Dafydd (eds.). The Methods of Breaking Bad: Essays on Narrative, Character and Ethics. McFarland: North Carolina, pp. 109-121.
RAYA, Irene (2012). Los modelos actuales de heroína en la ficción televisiva norteamericana de contenido maravilloso. Análisis de casos: Buffy Summers, Kara Thrace y Sookie Stackhouse. Libro de Actas del I Congreso Internacional de Comunicación y Género, pp. 1336-1363.
TASKER, Yvonne; NEGRA, Diane (eds.) (2007). Interrogating Post-feminism. Gender and the politics of popular culture. Durham: Duke University Press.
TYLER, Imogen (2011). Pregnant Beauty: Maternal Femininities under Neoliberalism. En: GILL, Rosalind; SCHARFF, Christina (eds.). New Femininities. Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 21-36.
VERNAY, Denise du (2012). Breaking Bonds. En KOEPSHELL, David R.; ARP, Robert Arp (eds.). Breaking Bad and Philosophy. Badder living through Chemistry. Chicago: Open Court Publishing, pp.191-199.
WATERS, Melanie (ed.). (2011). Women on Screen. Feminism and Femininity in Visual Culture. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
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