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      <title>The “Trouble” with Female Power: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Magic in the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Netflix, 2018-2020)</title>
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      <description>The first magical TV heroines were those of 60s sitcoms like I Dream of Jeannie (NBC, 1965-1970) and Bewitched (ABC, 1964-1972). They were created in the wake of major shifts in consciousness about female roles and sexuality and Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique (1963). Though possessing magical powers, the lead characters in these series were told not to use their powers, and Susan Douglas believes that through these representations “a significant proportion of the pop culture moguls were trying to acknowledge the impending release of female sexual and political energy, while keeping it all safely in a straightjacket.” Moreover, she adds that, since viewers had been socialized to regard female sexuality as monstrous, TV producers addressed concerns surrounding female sexuality by domesticating the monster, by making her pretty and sometimes wildly subservient, by shrinking her and keeping her locked up in a bottle, and by playing the situation for laughs. Linda Baughman, Allison Burr-Miller, and Linda Manning, note that Bewitched and its witches are part of our “media history” and that all the modern-day witches are viewed through our “media memory” of this show, which affects all current representations of witches through “intertextuality.” In contrast, the atmosphere in the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is meant to be disturbing. The landscape is bleak, and the sides of the shots are often blurry and out of focus. Sabrina’s family runs a mortuary out of their home, and the series is filled with horror tropes, many of which, as Barbara Creed notes, are associated with female reproduction. How is women’s power expressed and possibly also contained by the narrative, and what do these representations show about the evolution of gender roles on TV? What messages about women’s power and agency could be conveyed by the series? At first, the narrative clearly opposes Sabrina and the patriarchal figure of the dark lord, whom she resists before ultimately signing his book, but will, Sabrina, like many of her predecessors, ultimately be punished in the narrative for enjoying using magic and thus exercising power? How does this new series both conform to and break with other TV representations of witches and witchcraft, and what is the significance of this new conception of female power?  Cette étude analysera comment la figure de la sorcière dans les séries télévisées aux États-Unis est en train d’évoluer au XXIe siècle d’une façon souvent troublante. Initialement figures comiques, les sorcières des séries des années soixante et soixante-dix, telles Samantha dans Bewitched ou bien Jeanie dans I Dream of Genie, cherchaient surtout à se conformer aux codes de la femme au foyer idéale, niant ou cachant leurs pouvoirs en faveur d’un dévouement servile auprès de leurs maris. La série Chilling Adventures of Sabrina mettra en question ce modèle, ainsi que celui des séries de « bonne » magie comme Charmed ou Buffy the Vampire Slayer en accentuant les liens troublants entre sexualité, pouvoir féminin et magie noire. Cette analyse cherchera à étudier comment la série brise certaines conventions genrées et télévisuelles, tout en se conformant à d’autres.  </description>
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      <title>Working Girls, From Ally McBeal to Rebecca Bunch: the Evolution of the “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” on Screen</title>
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      <description>The association between madness and the oppression of women is a trope of narratives focusing on women which can support a sexist or a feminist perspective —women’s psychological distress being either a proof of their inferiority or a result of their systematic oppression. Contemporary representations of female characters suffering from mental distress build on this tradition and play with it as they question the gender norms that tend to produce personality disorders. Such representations are also shaped by the society that produced them and, in this case, the emergence of “therapy culture” (Füredi 2004) may have political consequences for the meaning conveyed by the shows. Comparing Ally McBeal (Fox, 1997-2002) and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (The CW, 2015-2019) allows for an analysis that covers two decades and major social and economic evolutions to adopt a social and historical perspective on the representation of female characters suffering from mental health issues in US TV series. This chapter aims at comparing the two shows to see how the treatment of mental distress in female characters points to gender dynamics and how it can contribute to challenging the norm. It argues that there are broader issues of identity and social norms at stake in the representation of mental distress in female heroines.  La folie et l’oppression des femmes sont souvent associées dans les récits centrés sur des personnages féminins. Ce lieu commun peut soutenir une perspective sexiste ou féministe –la détresse psychologique des femmes étant soit une preuve de leur infériorité, soit le résultat de leur oppression systématique. Les représentations récentes de personnages féminins souffrant de troubles mentaux s’appuient sur cette tradition et en jouent, en remettant en question les normes de genre qui tendent à produire des troubles de la personnalité. Ces représentations sont également façonnées par la société qui les a produites et, dans ce cas, l’émergence d’une « culture thérapeutique » (Füredi 2004) peut avoir des conséquences politiques sur les représentations. Comparer Ally McBeal (Fox, 1997-2002) et Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (The CW, 2015-2019) permet de mener une analyse qui couvre deux décennies et des évolutions sociales et économiques majeures pour adopter une perspective sociale et historique sur la représentation des personnages féminins souffrant de problèmes de santé mentale dans les séries télévisées étatsuniennes. Ce chapitre vise à comparer les deux séries pour voir comment le traitement de la détresse mentale chez les personnages féminins renvoie à des dynamiques marquées par le genre et peut contribuer à remettre la norme en question. Des questions plus larges d’identité et de normes sociales sont en jeu dans la représentation de la détresse mentale chez les héroïnes. </description>
      <pubDate>mer., 27 nov. 2024 16:06:45 +0100</pubDate>
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