Adieu Carmela Soprano! : Lessons from the HBO Mobster Wife on TV Female Agency and Neo-liberal (Narrative) Power
Akass, Kim and McCabe, Janet
(2017)
Adieu Carmela Soprano! : Lessons from the HBO Mobster Wife on TV Female Agency and Neo-liberal (Narrative) Power.
Intellect.
This chapter argues that characters like Carmela Soprano are a product of our complex post-feminist age of troubled emancipation. Indeed, Carmela is produced by a premium cable subscription company trading in a dynamic global TV marketplace and inculcates how the free market ideologies of Neo-liberalism have been assimilated and made useful particular traits of liberal feminism.
| Item Type | Other |
|---|---|
| Keywords | Sopranos, HBO, Carmela Soprano, feminism, m=neoliberalism |
| Subjects | Arts and Humanities(all) > General Arts and Humanities |
| Date Deposited | 29 May 2025 09:02 |
| Last Modified | 29 May 2025 09:02 |