All-American TV Crime Drama: Feminism and Identity Politics in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit

Author:   Sujata Moorti (Middlebury College, USA) ,  Lisa Cuklanz (Boston College, USA) ,  Lisa Cuklanz ,  Claire Nally (Northumbria University UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350258952


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   25 August 2022
Format:   Paperback
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All-American TV Crime Drama: Feminism and Identity Politics in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit


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Law and Order Special Victims Unit (SVU) is more popular than any other American police procedural television series, but how does its unique focus on sex crimes reflect contemporary popular culture and feminist critique, whilst also recasting the classic crime narrative? All-American TV Crime Drama is the first dedicated study of SVU and its treatment of sexual violence, gender and criminality. The book uses detailed textual and visual analyses of episodes to illuminate the assumptions underpinning the programme. Although SVU engages with issues pertaining to feminism and gender it still relies upon traditional and misogynistic tropes such as false rape charges and the monstrous mother to undermine positive views of the feminine. The show, and its backdrop, New York City thus become a stage on which national concerns about women, gender roles, the family and race are carried out. Moorti and Cuklanz unpack how the show has become a crucible for examining current attitudes towards these issues and include an analysis of its reception by its many fans in over 30 countries.

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Author:   Sujata Moorti (Middlebury College, USA) ,  Lisa Cuklanz (Boston College, USA) ,  Lisa Cuklanz ,  Claire Nally (Northumbria University UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:  

9781350258952


ISBN 10:   1350258954
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   25 August 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction Section I. Limits of Representation Practice Chapter 1: Feminism Modified Chapter 2: Feminism and Danger in the Global City Section II. U.S. Multicultural Chapter 3: Gendering Difference: Race and Heteronormativity Chapter 4: Global Drag Show Section III. New Identifications, New Interventions Chapter 5: Technologies of Violence, Visions of Criminality: The Evidentiary Crisis Chapter 6: In and Out: Ideological Limits on Contemporary Citizenship Conclusion

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Lisa Cuklanz is Professor and Chair of the Communication Department at Boston College. She has been a Fulbright Scholar, Director of Women s Studies at Boston College, and co-chaired the Graduate Consortium in Women s Studies. She has published extensively on representations of rape in American television and news media, including the monograph Rape on Prime Time: Television, Masculinity, and Sexual Violence (2000).

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