后种族政治与欲望的授权:布里杰顿的跨种族之爱作为解放

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Critical Studies in Media Communication Pub Date : 2023-10-05 DOI:10.1080/15295036.2023.2251544

William Joseph Sipe

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摘要珊达·莱姆斯最新的电视轰动更新了她对后特朗普世界的后种族和后女权主义幻想。布里杰顿抛弃了她标志性的不分肤色的选角，在对殖民时期英国贵族的幻想中，直面种族紧张关系和性别差异。然而，对于长期观看《尚达兰》的观众来说，抵制这种不公正的手段是无端地展示种族间的关系。布里杰顿构建了一个以真爱和欲望为中心的历史幻想，作为构建后种族和后女权主义社会的唯一机制。通过爱，英国贵族被转变为一个宽容的、种族包容的母系社会，人们的责任是真诚地生活和爱。虽然之前的学术研究将莱姆斯的作品置于新自由主义背景下，但我认为，通过费雪的资本主义现实主义理论，可以更熟练地理解布里杰顿的种族和性别政治，该理论描述了当代资本主义在神秘化权威和将真实消费等同于身份建构方面的投资。关键词:后种族政治后女权主义政治资本主义现实主义电视流行文化披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。

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Post-racial politics and the mandate to desire: interracial love as liberation in Bridgerton

ABSTRACTShonda Rhimes’ latest televisual sensation updates her post-racial and post-feminist fantasies for a post-Trump world. Discarding her trademark colorblind casting, Bridgerton confronts racial tensions and gender disparities within a fanciful reimagining of the aristocracy of colonial Britain. Yet, in a move familiar to longtime viewers of Shondaland, the means of resistance to such injustice is gratuitous displays of interracial relationships. Bridgerton constructs a historical fantasy that centers authentic love and desire as the exclusive mechanism for constructing a post-racial and post-feminist society. Through love, the English aristocracy is transformed into a permissive, racially inclusive matriarchy wherein one’s duty is to live and love authentically. While previous scholarship has contextualized Rhimes’ work within neoliberalism, I argue that the racial and gendered politics of Bridgerton are more adeptly understood through Fisher’s theory of capitalist realism, which describes contemporary capitalism’s investment in mystifying authority and equating authentic consumption with identity construction.KEYWORDS: Post-racial politicspost-feminist politicscapitalist realismtelevisionpopular culture Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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期刊介绍： Critical Studies in Media Communication (CSMC) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. CSMC publishes original scholarship in mediated and mass communication from a cultural studies and/or critical perspective. It particularly welcomes submissions that enrich debates among various critical traditions, methodological and analytical approaches, and theoretical standpoints. CSMC takes an inclusive view of media and welcomes scholarship on topics such as • media audiences • representations • institutions • digital technologies • social media • gaming • professional practices and ethics • production studies • media history • political economy. CSMC publishes scholarship about media audiences, representations, institutions, technologies, and professional practices. It includes work in history, political economy, critical philosophy, race and feminist theorizing, rhetorical and media criticism, and literary theory. It takes an inclusive view of media, including newspapers, magazines and other forms of print, cable, radio, television, film, and new media technologies such as the Internet.