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- Title
Women we loved: Paradoxes of public and private in the biographical television drama.
- Authors
Andrews, Hannah
- Abstract
Broadcast to critical acclaim and relatively large audiences for its niche channel, the Women We Loved season consisted of biographical dramatisations of three prominent female figures of 20th-century British culture. These dramas shared in common narratives that centre on the two aspects of ‘the public’ and ‘the private’: the tension between public career and personal life and the discrepancy between celebrity persona and private individual. Combining theoretical insights from feminist studies of biography with close textual analysis, this article analyses how performance, aesthetics and narrative express the ambivalent placement of their protagonists between public and private spheres.
- Subjects
BIOGRAPHICAL television programs; FEMINIST criticism; PRIVATE sphere; PUBLIC sphere; ENID (TV program); GRACIE! (TV program); MARGOT (TV program)
- Publication
Critical Studies in Television, 2017, Vol 12, Issue 1, p63
- ISSN
1749-6020
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1749602016682750