Post-feminist impasses in popular heroine television : the Persephone complex /

"Alison Horbury investigates the reprisal of the myth of Persephone - a mother-daughter plot of separation and initiation - in post-feminist television cultures where, she argues, it functions as a symptom expressing a complex around the question of sexual difference - what Lacan calls 'se...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Horbury, Alison, 1979- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Subjects:	Women on television. Heroines on television. Sex role on television. Persephone > (Greek deity) > On television. Feminism. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Why Persephone?
1.The myth of Persephone and The hymn to Demeter
2. Persephone in heroine television: The post-feminist Impasse
3. Persephone as narrative symptom: narrative transactions in long-form viewership
4.Persephone as epistemological impasse: the real body of Sydney Bristow and 'The woman here depicted'
5. Persephone as methodological impasse: feminine jouissance in Veronica's 'Two stories'
6. Persephone as historical impasse: 'Confrontation and accommodation' of the post-feminist heroine
Conclusion : The Persephone complex.