Adieu Carmela Soprano!: Lessons from the HBO Mobster Wife on TV Female Agency and Neo-liberal (Narrative) Power

Kim Akass; Janet McCabe

Adieu Carmela Soprano! Lessons from the HBO Mobster Wife on TV Female Agency and Neo-liberal (Narrative) Power

Kim Akass, Janet McCabe

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Abstract

This chapter argues that characters like Carmela Soprano are a product of our complex post-feminist age of troubled emancipation. Indeed, Carmela is produced by a premium cable subscription company trading in a dynamic global TV marketplace and inculcates how the free market ideologies of Neo-liberalism have been assimilated and made useful particular traits of liberal feminism.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Television Antiheroines
Subtitle of host publication	Women Behaving Badly in Crime and Prison Drama
Editors	Milly Buonanno
Place of Publication	Bristol
Publisher	Intellect
Pages	65-81
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Print)	978-1-78320-760-2
Publication status	Published - 10 Jan 2017

Keywords

Sopranos, HBO, Carmela Soprano, feminism, m=neoliberalism

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Television Antiheroines : Women Behaving Badly in Crime and Prison Drama. ed. / Milly Buonanno. Bristol: Intellect, 2017. p. 65-81.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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Adieu Carmela Soprano! Lessons from the HBO Mobster Wife on TV Female Agency and Neo-liberal (Narrative) Power

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