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Abstract
Broadcast to critical acclaim and relatively large audiences for its niche channel, the Women We Loved season consisted of biographical dramatisations of three prominent female figures of 20th-century British culture. These dramas shared in common narratives that centre on the two aspects of ‘the public’ and ‘the private’: the tension between public career and personal life and the discrepancy between celebrity persona and private individual. Combining theoretical insights from feminist studies of biography with close textual analysis, this article analyses how performance, aesthetics and narrative express the ambivalent placement of their protagonists between public and private spheres.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 63-78 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Critical Studies in Television |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 1 |
Early online date | 21 Dec 2016 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Mar 2017 |
Keywords
- biographical drama
- feminist criticism
- public and private spheres
- Biographical drama
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Broadcasting Biography: Analyzing dramatizations of real lives on screen
ANDREWS, H.
2/09/13 → 15/04/21
Project: Research