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In: Critical studies in television, 12, 2017, 1
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ISSN: 1749-6020
veröffentlicht in: Critical studies in television
Sprache: Englisch
Kollektion: OLC SSG Medien- / Kommunikationswissenschaft
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Broadcast to critical acclaim and relatively large audiences for its niche channel, the Women We Loved season consisted of biographical dramatisations of three prominent female figures of 20th-century British culture. These dramas shared in common narratives that centre on the two aspects of ‘the public’ and ‘the private’: the tension between public career and personal life and the discrepancy between celebrity persona and private individual. Combining theoretical insights from feminist studies of biography with close textual analysis, this article analyses how performance, aesthetics and narrative express the ambivalent placement of their protagonists between public and private spheres.