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The Golden Girls (Paperback)
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The Golden Girls (Paperback)
Series: TV Milestones Series
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The Golden Girls made its prime-time debut in 1985 on NBC, and the
critically acclaimed show has been a constant television companion
through cable reruns and streaming media services ever since. Most
people know that The Golden Girls is a sitcom about four feisty,
older women living together in Miami who love to eat cheesecake,
but Kate Browne argues that The Golden Girls is about so much more.
Drawing on feminist literary studies and television studies, Browne
makes a case for The Golden Girls as a TV milestone not only
because it remains one of the most popular sitcoms in television
history but also because its characters reflect shifting
complexities of gender, age, and economic status for women in the
late twentieth century and beyond. Each chapter is dedicated to
exploring what makes these remarkable characters defy expectations
of how older women should look, act, and love. Chapter 1 focuses on
Dorothy Zbornak's intriguing gender performance and shifting
desirability. Chapter 2 digs into Blanche Devereux's difficult
relationship with motherhood and aging. Chapter 3 highlights how
Rose Nylund made all the "right" choices in life but consistently
finds herself disenfranchised by the same social and economic
institutions that promised to protect her at midlife. Chapter 4
centers on how Sophia Petrillo drives the action of the show as a
trickster-bending plots to her own desires and offering moral
lessons to the other characters. The book offers an important
analysis of a hugely popular sitcom that extends the boundary of
what makes TV groundbreaking and worthy of study. Browne argues
that The Golden Girls is a "classic" sitcom in almost every way,
which keeps audiences engaged and allows the show to make
subversive moves when it matters most. Written with both superfans
and scholars in mind, the book invites new, diverse ways of
thinking about the show to spark future scholarship and
conversation about four of the most beloved characters in sitcom
history.
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