Scandalous romantic refraction: Reframing rape culture and coercive control on television

IF 1.1 2区艺术学 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION

Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2025-02-12 DOI:10.1177/17496020251320626

Laurena Bernabo

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Abstract

This article provides a critical analysis of the Olivia/Fitz relationship in Scandal, exploring their interactions and the program’s treatment of sexual and relational abuse in the context of the popular feminism in U.S. television. Scandal follows Olivia Pope, a political fixer who solves problems for D.C. elites while navigating a tumultuous personal life including an on-again/off-again affair with Fitzgerald Grant, the U.S. President. Olivia and Fitz join other TV couples that normalize abusive romantic relationships by failing to meaningfully problematize them despite Scandal’s feminist discourses. After reframing their relationship to demonstrate how this abusive relationship illustrates the continuum of sexual violence, I theorize a narrative strategy of “romantic refraction” which narratively privileges a romantic interpretation of this relationship through distinct representational patterns.

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可耻的浪漫折射：重塑强奸文化和电视上的强制控制

本文对《丑闻》中的奥利维亚/菲茨的关系进行了批判性的分析，探讨了她们之间的互动，以及在美国电视流行女权主义的背景下，该节目对性和关系虐待的处理。《丑闻》讲述的是奥利维亚·波普的故事，她是一名政治调停者，为华盛顿的精英们解决问题，同时她的个人生活也动荡不安，包括与美国总统菲茨杰拉德·格兰特分分合合的婚外情。奥利维亚和菲茨加入了其他电视剧情侣的行列，尽管《丑闻》中有女权主义的话语，但他们没有将虐待的浪漫关系正常化，而是没有将其有意义地问题化。在重新定义了他们的关系，以证明这种虐待关系如何说明性暴力的连续性之后，我提出了一种“浪漫折射”的叙事策略，这种叙事策略通过独特的代表性模式，在叙事上赋予了这种关系的浪漫解释的特权。

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Critical Studies in Television FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION-

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2.10

自引率

30.00%

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期刊介绍： Critical Studies in Television publishes articles that draw together divergent disciplines and different ways of thinking, to promote and advance television as a distinct academic discipline. It welcomes contributions on any aspect of television—production studies and institutional histories, audience and reception studies, theoretical approaches, conceptual paradigms and pedagogical questions. It continues to invite analyses of the compositional principles and aesthetics of texts, as well as contextual matters relating to both contemporary and past productions. CST also features book reviews, dossiers and debates. The journal is scholarly but accessible, dedicated to generating new knowledge and fostering a dynamic intellectual platform for television studies.