[ecrea] Book announcement: Talking Dirty on Sex and the City

I am pleased to announce the following publication:

Oria, Beatriz. /Talking Dirty on Sex and the City: Romance, Intimacy, 
Friendship <https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442235809>/. Lanham, New York, 
Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.

First broadcast on HBO in 1998, Sex and the City quickly became a 
mainstream success. Following four women who navigate the promise and 
peril of social, political, and sexual relationships in New York, the 
series caused a stir in the popular media. Academia also responded with 
a remarkable body of criticism for such an apparently trivial program. 
But more than ten years after the show ended, there is still much more 
to say about this cultural phenomenon that spawned two film sequels.

In Talking Dirty on Sex and the City: Romance, Intimacy, Friendship, 
Beatriz Oria explores the discourses surrounding the series from a 
sociological point of view. Specifically, this book focuses on the 
conventions of the romantic comedy genre and how its familiar fictional 
world articulates issues of intimacy, gender identity, and interpersonal 
relationships. Oria considers how generic conventions employed by the 
show affect discourses on intimacy and how interpersonal relationships 
at the turn of the century have not only been represented but also 
fashioned through a relevant popular-culture text.

The author also explores such elements as romantic versus democratic 
love, the representation of female sexuality, and new family models. 
With an interdisciplinary approach, this book touches on many different 
areas, including sociology, psychology, gender studies, and media 
studies. Aimed at a broad academic audience, Talking Dirty on Sex and 
the City will also appeal to longtime fans, who are no doubt still 
gossiping about the show.


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Beatriz Oria
Dpto. Filología Inglesa y Alemana
Facultad Filosofía y Letras
Universidad de Zaragoza
Pedro Cerbuna, 12
50009 Zaragoza
España

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