Killing Eve offers a new spin on gender in crime TV by deploying dual female leads, as detective-protagonist and criminal-villain.
E. Deidre Pribram
E. Deidre Pribram is Professor in the Communications Department at Molloy College, Long Island, New York. Her research focuses on cultural emotion studies, film and television studies and gender. Recent publications on television and seriality include: ‘Ensemble Storytelling: Dramatic Television Seriality, The Melodramatic Mode, and Emotions’ in Exploring Seriality on Screen (Routledge 2020), ‘Victims, Heroes, and Villains: Imaginary Beings in Contemporary Television Serials’ in Criminals as Heroes in Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan 2020), ‘Strategic Pleasure: Gendered Anger as Collective Emotion in Wanted’ in NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies (Spring 2019), and the forthcoming book, Emotional Expressionism: Television Serialization, the Melodramatic Mode, and Socioemotionality (Lexington 2022).
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