Gender, Violence and Popular Culture

Telling Stories

AvLaura J. Shepherd

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

This book examines the intersection of gender and violence in popular culture. Drawing on the latest thinking in critical international relations, media and cultural studies and gender studies, it focuses in particular on a number of popular TV shows including Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Generation Kill, The Corner and The West Wing. The book makes a unique theoretical contribution to the ‘narrative turn’ in International Relations by illustrating the ways in which popular culture and global politics are intertwined and how we make sense of our worlds through these two frames. Methodologically, the book enhances discourse-theoretical analysis in IR through its incorporation of methods from narratology and film studies. The book proposes an aesthetic ethicopolitical approach to global politics which challenges us to interrogate how it becomes possible that we think what we think, it challenges the truths that we hold to be self-evident and that which we take to be common sense. It demands that we think carefully, critically, uncomfortably, about our world(s) – even when we’re ‘only’ watching television.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-07-12
Mått:156 x 234 x 11 mm
Vikt:560 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Popular Culture and World Politics
Antal sidor:154
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780415525916

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Laura J. Shepherd is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia

Recensioner i media

Drawing on a sophisticated theoretical framework, Shepherd finds in the realm of the everyday the possibility to think critically about the world we live in. She opens up a realm of investigation – television shows – that have so far largely eluded international relations scholars. But Shepherd convincingly shows how links between gender and violence are part of global power relations that come into being through the stores we tell; stories that become real because they are rehearsed, time and again, as part of dominant and largely masculine ways of understanding sexuality, identity and community.Roland Bleiker, Professor of International Relations, University of Queensland

Innehållsförteckning

1. Telling stories: An essay on gender, violence and popular culture 2. Morality, legality and gender violence in Angel 3. Policing the boundaries of desire in Buffy the Vampire Slayer 4. Gender, ethics and political community in Generation Kill 5. Feminism and political strategy in The West Wing 6. Gender, violence and security in Oz 7. Security and governance after modernity in Firefly 8. Hope and the politics of natality in The Corner 9. Points de capiton: Aesthetics, ethics and critique