DANIELA FRANCESCA VIRDIS, SERIALISED GENDER. A LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF FEMININITIES IN CONTEMPORARY TV SERIES AND MEDIA, GENOVA: EDIZIONI CULTURALI INTERNAZIONALI GENOVA, 2012, ISBN 978-88-7544-250-7
DANIELA FRANCESCA VIRDIS, SERIALISED GENDER. A LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF FEMININITIES IN CONTEMPORARY TV SERIES AND MEDIA, GENOVA: EDIZIONI CULTURALI INTERNAZIONALI GENOVA, 2012, ISBN 978-88-7544-250-7
Author(s): Cristina NicolaeSubject(s): Gender Studies, Other Language Literature, Book-Review
Published by: Editura University Press, Universitatea de Medicina, Farmacie, Stiinte si Tehnologie “George Emil Palade” din Targu Mures
Keywords: gender studies; linguistic studies; media;
Summary/Abstract: Published in 2012 by Edizioni Culturali Internazionali Genova, Daniela Virdis’ book proposes a different and luring interdisciplinary approach that brings together linguistic, gender and media studies. The atypicality of the research derives precisely from the choice of the types of discourse that the author debates on, a linguistic and cultural mix that is both surprising and ambitious: television series (Sex and the City, Desperate Housewives, The Simpsons, Nip / Tuck), movie (When Harry Met Sally ...), novel (Bridget Jones’s Diary). According to Daniela Virdis, these are perceived as cultural products that share a reinvention of the love story “codes”, thus “updating” the genre and adapting it to the culture of postfeminist consumerism.
Journal: Acta Marisiensis. Philologia
- Issue Year: 2/2020
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 173-174
- Page Count: 3
- Language: Romanian