Fracturing Tina Fey: A Critical Analysis of Postfeminist Television Comedy Stardom

Patterson, Eleanor

doi:10.1080/10714421.2012.701991

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“…Fey’s extra-textual glamour is reassuring in patriarchal terms, because it demonstrates her ability to ‘discipline’ it according to ‘hegemonic beauty standards’ (Patterson, 2012: 242). Dunham’s more glamorous persona for the awards season and for chat show sessions functioned differently.…”

Section: Activism Transmedia Authorship and Celebritymentioning

confidence: 99%

A survivor just like us? Lena Dunham and the politics of transmedia authorship and celebrity feminism

Murray

2017

Feminist Theory

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Lena Dunham is a modern celebrity and television producer-writer who is important in her willingness to self-identify as a feminist, and to engage in feminist activism on social media and in her memoir writing. Her writing in her successful television series, Girls (2012-17), has already raised questions of authenticity. This article develops this analysis further by considering how Dunham's situation, as a transmedia author, complicates this authenticity, particularly through her construction of 'affective ordinariness', a key aspect of her identity as a feminist activist. Her various personas, including that of the celebrity feminist, highlight the 'contradictions' which exist within the current complex culture of postfeminism and the perception of new feminisms. Nowhere are these contradictions more apparent than in the dissonance created by Dunham's transmedia voice in the matter of rape and sexual violence.

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Section: Activism Transmedia Authorship and Celebritymentioning

confidence: 99%