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Book SynopsisBeyond Representation poses the question as to whether over the last thirty years there have been signs of ‘progress’/’progressiveness’ in the representation of ‘marginalised’ or subaltern identity categories, within television drama in Britain and the US.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Beyond the politics of identity?
1. Beyond realism? Modes of reading in Marxist-socialist and post-Marxist socialist, television drama criticism
2. The end(s) of feminism(s) from Madonna to Ally McBeal.?
3. Divided duties: diasporic subjectivities and ‘race relations’ dramas (Supply and Demand, The Bill, Second Generation)
4. The world of enterprise: myths of the global and global myths (Star Trek)
5. Only human nature after all? Romantic attractions and queer dilemmas (Queer as Folk)
Conclusion: Beyond (simple) representation? Metrosexuality and The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
