{"product_id":"woman-up-invoking-feminism-in-quality-television-9780814346556","title":"Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Julia Havas\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Wayne State University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Wayne State University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Television - History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile American television has long relied on a strategic foregrounding of feminist politics to promote certain programming's cultural value, \u003cem\u003eWoman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television\u003c\/em\u003e is the first sustained critical analysis of the twenty-first-century resurgence of this tradition. In \u003cem\u003eWoman Up\u003c\/em\u003e, Julia Havas'scentral argument is that postmillennial feminist quality television springs from a rhetorical subversion of the (much-debated) masculine-coded quality television culture on the one hand and the dominance of postfeminist popular culture on the other. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePostmillennial quality television culture promotes the idea of aesthetic-generic hierarchies among different types of scripted programming. Its development has facilitated evaluative academic analyses of television texts based on aesthetic merit, producing a corpus of scholarship devoted to pinpointing where value resides in shows considered worthy of discussion. Other strands of television scholarship have criticized this approach for sidestepping the gendered and classed processes of canonization informing the phenomenon. \u003cem\u003eWoman Up\u003c\/em\u003e intervenes in this debate by reevaluating such approaches and insisting that rather than further fostering or critiquing already prominent processes of canonization, there is a need to interrogate the cultural forces underlying them. Via detailed analyses of four TV programs emerging in the early period of the feminist quality TV trend-\u003cem\u003e30\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eRock \u003c\/em\u003e(2006-13), \u003cem\u003e Parks and Recreation \u003c\/em\u003e(2009-15), \u003cem\u003e The Good Wife\u003c\/em\u003e (2009-16), and\u003cem\u003e Orange Is the New Black\u003c\/em\u003e (2013-19)-\u003cem\u003eWoman Up\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates that such series mediate their cultural significance by combining formal aesthetic exceptionalism and a politicized rhetoric around a problematic postfeminism, thus linking ideals of political and aesthetic value. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWoman Up\u003c\/em\u003e will most appeal to students and scholars of cinema and media studies, feminist media studies, television studies, and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46417179607191,"sku":"9780814346556","price":9677.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780814346556.webp?v=1769066632","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/woman-up-invoking-feminism-in-quality-television-9780814346556","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}