Artikel
Shame TV : Feminist Antiaspirationalism in HBO’s Girls
Verfasst von:
Silverman, Gillian D.
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Chicago:
2018
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877-904 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Silverman, Gillian D. info ; Hagelin, Sarah info |
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| Jahr: | 2018 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Lena Dunham’s television series Girls (HBO 2012–17) marks a sharp departure from previous “single girl” sitcoms. The predecessors starred plucky heroines deeply invested in both the career trajectory and the marriage plot. Girls’ Hannah Horvath, by contrast, rejects conventional heteronormative goals and often willingly participates in her own humiliation. She represents a new kind of female protagonist, pleasure seeking and antiaspirational, motivated neither by the marriage plot nor by the traditional career trajectory. Her character arc reads a bit like a reverse bildungsroman—instead of being educated toward growth and personal development, her life experiences tend toward disappointment and failure. We argue that the antiaspirational TV heroine pushes against traditional notions of normative female behavior in important ways. At a time when women are being encouraged to “lean in”—to take advantage of the shattered glass ceiling—voices like Dunham’s are important reminders that economic advancement and the democratization of the corporate workplace are not the only ways to advance a progressive women’s agenda. More specifically, antiaspirationalism brings with it two benefits: first, it sidesteps the category of futurity (the female subject oriented toward progress and development) in favor of presentism and in-the-moment sensation. Second, such an approach downplays individual self-realization, potentially allowing for enhanced experiences of collectivity. Antiaspirationalism, in other words, is not simply nihilism; rather, it represents a value system whose rewards are tied to immediacy rather than end, to adventure rather than bildung, to sharing rather than privacy and individualism. | |
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