I want what everyone wants: cruel optimism in HBO's 'Girls'

Charnock, Ruth

I want what everyone wants: cruel optimism in HBO's 'Girls'

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posted on 2024-02-12, 09:33 authored by Ruth Charnock

This chapter considers the HBO tv series 'Girls' as enacting the cultural theorist Lauren Berlant's notion of cruel optimism, specifically with regards its portrayal of millennial precarity: financial, social and emotional.

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Gender and Economics in Popular Culture: Femininity, Masculinity and Austerity in Film and TV

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I. B. Tauris

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1784536644

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2016-06-17

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2016-06-17

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2016-06-17

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2016-06-17

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23299

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cultural theory Economics neoliberalism Popular culture Television

I want what everyone wants: cruel optimism in HBO's 'Girls'

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