Geraldine Harris
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719074585
- eISBN:
- 9781781701010
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719074585.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Television
This book poses the question as to whether, over the last thirty years, there have been signs of ‘progress’ or ‘progressiveness’ in the representation of ‘marginalised’ or subaltern identity ...
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This book poses the question as to whether, over the last thirty years, there have been signs of ‘progress’ or ‘progressiveness’ in the representation of ‘marginalised’ or subaltern identity categories within television drama in Britain and the US. In doing so, it interrogates some of the key assumptions concerning the relationship between aesthetics and the politics of identity that have influenced and informed television drama criticism during this period. The book functions as a textbook because it provides students with a pathway through complex, wide-reaching and highly influential interdisciplinary terrain. Yet its re-evaluation of some of the key concepts that dominated academic thought in the twentieth century also make it of interest to scholars and specialists. Chapters examine ideas around politics and aesthetics emerging from Marxist-socialism and postmodernism, feminism and postmodern feminism, anti-racism and postcolonialism, queer theory and theories of globalisation, so as to evaluate their impact on television criticism and on television as an institution. These discussions are consolidated through case studies that offer analyses of a range of television drama texts including Big Women, Ally McBeal, Supply and Demand, The Bill, Second Generation, Star Trek (Enterprise), Queer as Folk, Metrosexuality and The Murder of Stephen Lawrence.Less
This book poses the question as to whether, over the last thirty years, there have been signs of ‘progress’ or ‘progressiveness’ in the representation of ‘marginalised’ or subaltern identity categories within television drama in Britain and the US. In doing so, it interrogates some of the key assumptions concerning the relationship between aesthetics and the politics of identity that have influenced and informed television drama criticism during this period. The book functions as a textbook because it provides students with a pathway through complex, wide-reaching and highly influential interdisciplinary terrain. Yet its re-evaluation of some of the key concepts that dominated academic thought in the twentieth century also make it of interest to scholars and specialists. Chapters examine ideas around politics and aesthetics emerging from Marxist-socialism and postmodernism, feminism and postmodern feminism, anti-racism and postcolonialism, queer theory and theories of globalisation, so as to evaluate their impact on television criticism and on television as an institution. These discussions are consolidated through case studies that offer analyses of a range of television drama texts including Big Women, Ally McBeal, Supply and Demand, The Bill, Second Generation, Star Trek (Enterprise), Queer as Folk, Metrosexuality and The Murder of Stephen Lawrence.
Burnett Bolloten
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469624464
- eISBN:
- 9781469624488
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469624464.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter describes the widening rifts within the Socialist party as two major factions came to the fore: the majority, led by Francisco Largo Caballero, advocated revolutionary ideals while the ...
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This chapter describes the widening rifts within the Socialist party as two major factions came to the fore: the majority, led by Francisco Largo Caballero, advocated revolutionary ideals while the smaller, more moderate faction, led by Indalecio Prieto, was against it. Largo Caballero's ultimate goal was establishing socialism—Marxist socialism—a radical position he had taken up in 1933 at the age of sixty-four. His transformation into a proponent of left-wing Spanish socialism was largely brought about by the indifference felt from the liberal Republicans led by Manuel Azaña toward the 1932 Agrarian Reform Law. Prieto, on the other hand, found Caballero's collaboration with the Communists extremely dangerous. Caballero's revolutionary stance would widen the already irreconcilable divisions within the Socialist party.Less
This chapter describes the widening rifts within the Socialist party as two major factions came to the fore: the majority, led by Francisco Largo Caballero, advocated revolutionary ideals while the smaller, more moderate faction, led by Indalecio Prieto, was against it. Largo Caballero's ultimate goal was establishing socialism—Marxist socialism—a radical position he had taken up in 1933 at the age of sixty-four. His transformation into a proponent of left-wing Spanish socialism was largely brought about by the indifference felt from the liberal Republicans led by Manuel Azaña toward the 1932 Agrarian Reform Law. Prieto, on the other hand, found Caballero's collaboration with the Communists extremely dangerous. Caballero's revolutionary stance would widen the already irreconcilable divisions within the Socialist party.
