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HBO's Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege
is a collection of essays that examines the HBO program Girls.
Since its premiere in 2012, the series has garnered the attention
of individuals from various walks of life. The show has been
described in many terms: insightful, out-of-touch, brash, sexist,
racist, perverse, complex, edgy, daring, provocative-just to name a
few. Overall, there is no doubt that Girls has firmly etched itself
in the fabric of early twenty-first-century popular culture. The
essays in this book examine the show from various angles including:
white privilege; body image; gender; culture; race; sexuality;
parental and generational attitudes; third wave feminism; male
emasculation and immaturity; hipster, indie, and urban music as it
relates to Generation Y and Generation X. By examining these
perspectives, this book uncovers many of the most pressing issues
that have surfaced in the show, while considering the broader
societal implications therein.
The essays in this anthology study Israeli television, its
different forms of representation, audiences and production
processes, past and present, examining Israeli television in both
its local, cultural dynamics, and global interfaces. The book looks
at Israeli television as a creator, negotiator, guardian and warden
of collective Israeli memory, examining instances of Israeli
original television exported and circulated to the US and the
global markets, as well as instances of American, British, and
global TV formats, adapted and translated to the Israeli scene and
screen. The trajectory of this volume is to shed light on major
themes and issues Israeli television negotiates: history and
memory, war and trauma, Zionism and national disillusionment, place
and home, ethnicity in its unique local variations of Ashkenazim
and Mizrahim, immigrants from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia,
Israeli-Arabs and Palestinians, gender in its unique Israeli
formations, specifically masculinity as shaped by the military and
constant violent conflict, femininity in this same context as well
as within a complex Jewish oriented society, religion, and
secularism. Providing multifaceted portraits of Israeli television
and culture in its Middle Eastern political and local context, this
book will be a key resource to readers interested in media and
television studies, cultural studies, Israel, and the Middle East.
The essays in this anthology study Israeli television, its
different forms of representation, audiences and production
processes, past and present, examining Israeli television in both
its local, cultural dynamics, and global interfaces. The book looks
at Israeli television as a creator, negotiator, guardian and warden
of collective Israeli memory, examining instances of Israeli
original television exported and circulated to the US and the
global markets, as well as instances of American, British, and
global TV formats, adapted and translated to the Israeli scene and
screen. The trajectory of this volume is to shed light on major
themes and issues Israeli television negotiates: history and
memory, war and trauma, Zionism and national disillusionment, place
and home, ethnicity in its unique local variations of Ashkenazim
and Mizrahim, immigrants from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia,
Israeli-Arabs and Palestinians, gender in its unique Israeli
formations, specifically masculinity as shaped by the military and
constant violent conflict, femininity in this same context as well
as within a complex Jewish oriented society, religion, and
secularism. Providing multifaceted portraits of Israeli television
and culture in its Middle Eastern political and local context, this
book will be a key resource to readers interested in media and
television studies, cultural studies, Israel, and the Middle East.
HBO's Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege
is a collection of essays that examines the HBO program Girls.
Since its premiere in 2012, the series has garnered the attention
of individuals from various walks of life. The show has been
described in many terms: insightful, out-of-touch, brash, sexist,
racist, perverse, complex, edgy, daring, provocative-just to name a
few. Overall, there is no doubt that Girls has firmly etched itself
in the fabric of early twenty-first-century popular culture. The
essays in this book examine the show from various angles including:
white privilege; body image; gender; culture; race; sexuality;
parental and generational attitudes; third wave feminism; male
emasculation and immaturity; hipster, indie, and urban music as it
relates to Generation Y and Generation X. By examining these
perspectives, this book uncovers many of the most pressing issues
that have surfaced in the show, while considering the broader
societal implications therein.
Tony Soprano, Don Draper, and Walter White ushered in the era of
the television antihero, with compelling narratives and complex
characters. While critics and academics celebrated these
characters, the antiheroines who populated television screens in
the twenty-first century were pushed to the margins and dismissed
as "chick TV." In this volume, Yael Levy advances antiheroines to
the forefront of television criticism, revealing the varied and
subtle ways in which they perform feminist resistance. Offering a
retooling of gendered media analyses, Levy finds antiheroism not
only in the morally questionable cop and tormented lawyer, but also
in the housewife and nurse who inhabit more stereotypical feminine
roles. By analyzing Girls, Desperate Housewives, Nurse Jackie,
Being Mary Jane, Grey's Anatomy, Six Feet Under, Sister Wives, and
the Real Housewives franchise, Levy explores the narrative
complexities of "chick TV" and the radical feminist potential of
these shows.
Tony Soprano, Don Draper, and Walter White ushered in the era of
the television antihero, with compelling narratives and complex
characters. While critics and academics celebrated these
characters, the antiheroines who populated television screens in
the twenty-first century were pushed to the margins and dismissed
as "chick TV." In this volume, Yael Levy advances antiheroines to
the forefront of television criticism, revealing the varied and
subtle ways in which they perform feminist resistance. Offering a
retooling of gendered media analyses, Levy finds antiheroism not
only in the morally questionable cop and tormented lawyer, but also
in the housewife and nurse who inhabit more stereotypical feminine
roles. By analyzing Girls, Desperate Housewives, Nurse Jackie,
Being Mary Jane, Grey's Anatomy, Six Feet Under, Sister Wives, and
the Real Housewives franchise, Levy explores the narrative
complexities of "chick TV" and the radical feminist potential of
these shows.
In this book, Rabbi Yael Levy gathers wisdom from Psalms and the
Jewish mystical tradition into a unique Mindfulness approach to the
ancient Jewish practice of Counting the Omer during the 49 days
between Passover and Shavuot. This 96-page, full-color guide
includes the Omer blessings in Hebrew and English, daily teachings
and intentions, pages for reflections and photographs to inspire
meditation. Daily suggestions for action deepen the experience of
counting each day and making each day count. Using insights gained
from more than a decade of her own spiritual exploration with the
Omer, Rabbi Levy has created a guide for spiritual growth for
beginners and those who have experience with this practice.
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