'Desperate Housewives' or a Drag Queen Show in American Suburbia

• Authors: Szczesniak M.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article presents the American series 'Desperate Housewives' as seen through the prism of the gender and queer theory. The authoress looks at how gender of the main female characters of the series is constructed and presented, and asks whether a mainstream series can challenge dominant culture's presentations of gender. The series 'Desperate Housewives' then serves as a pretext for analysis, not only of how images of gender are constructed, but also on subversive nature of pop culture. She refers in her work to theoretical concepts of Judith Butler and Susan Sontag.

Keywords

EN

'DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES'; BUTLER JUDITH; SONTAG SUSAN

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Kwartalnik Filmowy
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 62-63
• Pages: 131-142
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Szczesniak M.

• M. Szczesniak, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Kultury Polskiej, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA053710