I Want More: Subverting Symbolic Annihilation in Big Little Lies

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dc.contributor.advisorBülgözdi, Imola
dc.contributor.authorPapp, Fruzsina Judit
dc.contributor.departmentDE--Bölcsészettudományi Karhu_HU
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-18T15:36:54Z
dc.date.available2021-05-18T15:36:54Z
dc.date.created2021-04
dc.description.abstractHBO’s Big Little Lies is the American adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s eponymous novel, which follows the events unfolding among the mothers after a primary school conflict, eventually leading to the murder of Perry, Celeste’s husband. Celeste, along with her friends, Jane, and Madeline, are in the centre of the narrative. In many ways, their situations are similar, although they all embody different approaches to and aspects of traditional gender roles and mothering. As Jane’s son is accused of bullying a classmate, the three women defend Ziggy together, which attitude is then reiterated in the final episode, as all women “draw the lines of allegiance by gender” (Zoller-Seitz, The Vulture) as they stand up to fight their own bully. Throughout season one, which my research focuses on, the women are presented as contemporary counterparts of the white, upper-middle-class women of America in the 1950s, as they all struggle with keeping up the picture-perfect reputation that is expected of them, recalling the frustration that became known as the “problem that has no name” (Friedan, The Feminine Mystique). My claim is that Big Little Lies not only adapts the originally Australian novel to the small screen but also adapts Friedan’s notion to the 21st-century communities. I also focus on the representation of the conventional gender roles and argue that the series offers a new solution to the problem that has no name by subverting the gender roles, culminating in giving agency to the women in passive, victim positions.hu_HU
dc.description.courseanglisztikahu_HU
dc.description.degreeMSc/MAhu_HU
dc.format.extent44hu_HU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2437/309892
dc.language.isoenhu_HU
dc.subjectBig Little Lieshu_HU
dc.subjectLiane Moriartyhu_HU
dc.subjectHBOhu_HU
dc.subjectadaptationhu_HU
dc.subjecttelevision studieshu_HU
dc.subjectfilm studieshu_HU
dc.subject.dspaceDEENK Témalista::Kultúratudományhu_HU
dc.subject.dspaceDEENK Témalista::Irodalomtudományhu_HU
dc.titleI Want More: Subverting Symbolic Annihilation in Big Little Lieshu_HU
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