Sex and the City and consumer culture: Remediating postfeminist drama

Arthurs, Jane

Abstract

Sex and the City became central to debates about postfeminist culture following its global impact at the centre of a culture of female fandom. Its success and influence is symptomatic of the cultural and economic forces shaping television in the digital era, and offers a case study of how the deregulation, commercialisation and proliferation of television into multiple channels have enabled a new form of sexualised address in which women’s sexual desire is central. But this is expressed through an ironic aesthetic which offers a ‘complicit critique’ of the women’s lifestyle and their commodified relation to their bodies and identity.

• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2008
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2nd ed
• Pages: 41-56
• Book Title: Feminist Television Criticism
• ISBN: 9780335225446
• Keywords: Sex and the city, digital, television, postfeminism
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1016722
• Publisher URL: http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0335225446.html