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Gender and genres on TV, 1989, n. 8, pp. 87-100
The relationship between literary genre and sexual identity in television transposition is here analysed. Stereotypical male and (even more) female representation still resists, though some exceptions start to appear, as in Great Britain in the sixties, and more recently in Italy.
A new perception of women is also reflected in the iconography of television series, privileged research field in the present essay. On the whole the conclusions are positive, as the relationship between literary form on the one side and masculinity and femininity on the other redefines stereotypes which are no longer representative of contemporary popular culture from which television series stem.
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CURTI Lidia - BALZANO Wanda, Mythotopography of a passion: Angela Carter's
Passion of New Eve, 1994, n. 21, pp. 37-57
In this section of the journal a feminist scholar of some standing introduces a younger scholar; here Lidia Curti, professor of English and Cultural Studies, introduces Wanda Balzano's analysis of Carter's well-known novel. In this analysis, the author looks at the different - physical and allegorical - spaces of the novel: a sort of up-turned dantesque universe, where the new Eve and a new meaning come into being.
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Reviews for DWF
SPIVAK CHAKRAVORTY Gayatri, In other worlds: essays in cultural politics,
New York e Londra, Methuen, 1987
rev. by Lidia Curti, 1988, n. 7, pp. 53-56
BRUNO Giuliana, Street-walking on a Ruined Map: Cultural Theory and the
City Films of Elvira Notari, Princeton, N.J., Princeton U.P., 1993
rev. by Lidia Curti, 1993, n. 17, pp. 69-73