The paradoxical empowerment of the female loser in comedy series Fleabag and Chewing Gum
Defay-Thibaud, Elena
The paradoxical empowerment of the female loser in comedy series Fleabag and Chewing Gum - 2024.
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The loser figure has been a fixture in comedies for over thirty years now, for example the clumsy and luckless Pierre Richard in La Chèvre (English title Knock on Wood), or Jeff Bridges playing a slacker in The Big Lebowski. Yet there is no denying that this figure is unequally represented in fiction: what can be said about the presence of the female loser on screen? Using narratological tools, this article examines the mediological and feminist implications of the female loser by looking at the Fleabag and Chewing-Gum TV series, which feature their own paradigm of empowerment at the heart of their narratives.
The paradoxical empowerment of the female loser in comedy series Fleabag and Chewing Gum - 2024.
14
The loser figure has been a fixture in comedies for over thirty years now, for example the clumsy and luckless Pierre Richard in La Chèvre (English title Knock on Wood), or Jeff Bridges playing a slacker in The Big Lebowski. Yet there is no denying that this figure is unequally represented in fiction: what can be said about the presence of the female loser on screen? Using narratological tools, this article examines the mediological and feminist implications of the female loser by looking at the Fleabag and Chewing-Gum TV series, which feature their own paradigm of empowerment at the heart of their narratives.
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