[ecrea] New Book Info - 'Expressions of Blame: Narratives of Battered Women Who Kill, in the Twentieth Century Daily Express'

> 'Expressions of Blame: Narratives of Battered Women Who Kill, in the 
> Twentieth Century Daily Express'
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> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Expressions-Blame-Narratives-Battered-Twentieth/dp/3639192575/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255358255&sr=8-1 
>
>
> The Daily Express reporting of battered women who kill uses framing 
> borrowed from popular contemporary entertainment narratives, which 
> have included melodramatic theatre and silent film, clue-puzzle 
> novels, film noir and reality-crime television. Its representations 
> of the guilt or innocence of these women are shaped by these 
> stories, which accord with the newspaper's political views and 
> express its gender politics. It has preserved conservative, 
> traditional ideologies of womanhood to the extent that the 
> virgin-victim is held as a virtuous figure at both ends of the 
> century. It has supported anti-feminist discourse by remaining a 
> sellable product, during both main feminist social movements, whilst 
> circulating anti-feminist and traditionally gendered images that are 
> viewed from the male gaze. The permanence of this male gaze suggests 
> that attempts to blame feminisation as a cause of tabloidisation are 
> misapplied and the culprit is instead the drive to entertain for 
> monetary gain.
>
>
>
> Dr. J. Sadie Clifford, M.A.
> School of Journalism, Media and Communication Studies,
> Cardiff University.
> Tel: +442920 877335
> email: (cliffords /at/ cardiff.ac.uk)

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