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https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.45564
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2017
iv, 69 pages : color illlustrations
Masters Thesis
Academic theses
Text
eng
Fry, Elisabeth
Sandlin, Jennifer
Cavender, Gray
Anderson, Lisa
Arizona State University
Partial requirement for: M.A., Arizona State University, 2017
Includes bibliographical references (pages 66-69)
Field of study: Social and cultural pedagogy
This project explores television as the mediation of lived experience through a semiotic phenomenological lens. To do so, this thesis explores representations of gendered violence in self-identified feminist, Sally Wainwright's two shows: Last Tango in Halifax (2012) and Happy Valley (2014). By employing a phenomenological framework to Sally Wainwright's own relationships and experiences, I will seek to examine the semiotic codes embedded in the interactions between women in Happy Valley and Last Tango in Halifax. This will also provide a foundation for discussion on how and why the characters in her shows appear in ways that submit to and subvert the dominant 21st century understanding of 'feminine' on television.
Women's Studies
Mass Communication
Pedagogy
British television
Media Studies
Popular Culture
Public Pedagogy
Television
Women and Gender
Feminism on television
Violence on television
Women--Violence against.
Women
Last tango in a happy valley: television as mediated lived experience