Introduction: Special Issue – Going Cheap? Female Celebrity in Reality, Tabloid and Scandal Genres

Dec. 1, 2008

(part of a series in Special Issue #48: GOING CHEAP? Female Celebrity in Reality, Tabloid and Scandal Genres – Edited by DIANE NEGRA and SU HOLMES ) [1] What is it with female celebrities lately? While the good girl/bad girl categories of a ludicrously dichotomized cultural script of femininity have...

“Quality Postfeminism?” Sex and the Single Girl on HBO

April 1, 2004

Figure 1-The Cast of Sex and the City [1] A very vibrant area of work in television studies at the moment dedicates itself to freshening up debates over “quality television” in an era of “must-see” programming (see Jancovich & Lyons, as well as Carr, Metz & Tankel, forthcoming). This article...