MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture: Focus Issue Seven: Female Detectives on TV

Misiak, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7153-944X, Backman Rogers, Anna, Horeck, Tanya, Ford, Jessica and Sadri, Houman ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7736-2494 (2021) MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture: Focus Issue Seven: Female Detectives on TV. [Journal]

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Abstract / Summary

With this publication, we turn towards another outlet that has become a source of comfort and escapism during long periods of lockdown and isolation: television drama. And here, we once again celebrate the ongoing and unwavering sense of the global feminist community—a unique spirit of support for women everywhere. Our authors, peer reviewers and editors always hope to contribute to this, even in the most challenging of times. As this issue reveals, a similar set of feminist values often underpins contemporary TV narratives that feature female investigators. Perhaps this is why many of us have been almost religiously watching crime dramas with women detectives of diverse backgrounds since the start of the pandemic in 2020. Their actions on the small screen fascinate us, and often serve as a remedy for our forced inaction in real life, probably now more than ever before.

That said, this issue has been years in the making. We thank Laura Nicholson for her invaluable input on this project during its inception, and her passion for the topic. Crime drama that centres on the female detective offers one of the few spaces within global popular culture to address some of the cardinal conjectures and concerns of feminism: agency, autonomy, professional and personal identities, sexualised male violence, misogyny, race, gendered politics, and ageing (to take but a few of the themes discussed in this issue). Tanya Horeck and Jessica Ford have been instrumental in bringing this collection together, which is richly political and equally critical in examining these most popular diegetic characters. We thank them both hugely for their generosity, their insight, and their hard work and commitment to seeing this issue through to fruition. Alongside these essays, you will also find a range of miscellaneous pieces for which we are very proud to provide a platform.

Item Type:	Journal
ISSN:	2003-167x
eISSN:	2003-167x
Subjects:	Film & Television Film & Television > Television
Courses by Department:	The School of Film & Television
Depositing User:	Anna Misiak
Date Deposited:	18 Dec 2024 11:22
Last Modified:	18 Dec 2024 11:22
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/5860

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