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Beyond 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.

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Introduction: 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

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 8/31/2011 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719074592, 978-0719074592
      ISBN10: 0719074592

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Beyond 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 Contents

      Introduction: 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

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