Fantastic post! I'm so glad that someone is writing about Alexandre this week as she plays such a phenomenal (yet mostly invisible role) in the series. What I love about the BBC behind the scenes clip you have chosen is that it so clearly foregrounds ...
I agree with this suggestion, Liza-Anne! I believe that thinking about posthumanism might be a better way to expand our thoughts on the series. Specifically, I'm thinking here of Olivier and his tail and the discourse around body modification. It mig ...
Thanks for your reply, Lindsey! I think it's useful to think about tv performance in conversation with stardom. While TV studies has done some work on stardom and TV, a lot more work has been done on "TV personalities" as the TV counterpart ...
Thanks for your reply, Liza-Anne! I think what you're pointing to underscores the melodramatic nature of the show. While the show is switching between genres (across the bodies of its clones, even) I feel like it's still fundamentally rooted in ...
Thanks for your reply, Moira! I'm so glad that you bring this up. I just responded to Liza-Anne about the melodramatic nature of the show and have a very similar reply to your comment. I think the fact that the viewer is invited in on the joke of the ...
Great post Barbara! I'm interested in how "unlikeable" you find these "bad" mothers, as this dislike seems reliant on an ideological understanding of what makes a "good" mother. I think the better question is to examine ...
While Betty is unlikeable for a variety of reasons, I'm wondering who is to blame for her being "stuck." I feel like Betty is supposed to emphasize for us the dangers of trying to maintain a perfect veneer or trying to fit stereotypes that ...
You're right,the series (especially Mad Men) do end up contradicting themselves and turning in on themselves. it's interesting to consider how these contradictions work in male centered versus female centered narratives. I'm thinking here o ...
She also becomes almost irrelevant to the series after season 4 or so, too, which felt odd. And dont get me started om the fat Betty storyline. They just completely phased her out. We hardly saw her at all in the first half of season 7. ...
Great post, Bridgett. What is so interesting in the case of Emily/Amanda is that she uses moral femininity to mask her unruly desires of revenge. I like that you evoke Butler at the end here because I think "Emily" works as the mask that hides t ...
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Alexandre as actress in "her own right"
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authentic yet manufactured image
melodrama
viewer knowledge and melodrama
"Bad" mothering
Blame?
female centered series
she also
Masks of femininity
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