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

by Sujata Moorti
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781350258952
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
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  • Pages: 256
  • Original Price: GBP 31.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 313 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Television / History & Criticism, Feminism & Feminist Theory, and Popular Culture

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.

Cuklanz, Lisa: - Lisa Cuklanz is Associate Professor of Communication at Boston College, USA.

Moorti, Sujata: - Sujata Moorti is Director and Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Middlebury College, USA. She has published extensively on media representations of gender, sexuality and diasporic formations. Her previous publications include Color of Rape: Gender, Race and Democratic Public Spheres (2002) and Local Violence, Global Media: Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations (2009).

Nally, Claire: - Claire Nally is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature in the Department of English Literature, Linguistics and Creative Writing at Northumbria University, UK. She is the author of Steampunk: Gender, Subculture and the Neo-Victorian (Bloomsbury, 2019), co-editor or Bloomsbury Library of Gender and Popular Culture and Deputy Editor (including reviews) of the open access journal C21 Literature.

Smith, Angela: - Angela Smith is Professor of Language and Culture at the University of Sunderland, UK. She has written numerous articles and book chapters on media discourses, gender, the portrayal of immigrants and the representation of politicians.

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