“THAT’S A SEXIST TERM!”
THE IRONIC FEMINISM OF THE TELEVISION SERIES CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND
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https://doi.org/10.53450/2179-1465.RG.2021v12i1p247-274Keywords:
Feminism, postfeminism, Irony, Musical, Crazy Ex-GirlfriendAbstract
The present paper aims to explore what we call “ironic feminism” from the TV show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (The CW, 2015-2019), from the perception that the series uses irony as a device to present critical counterpoints to the narrative itself. Our analysis focuses on the musical numbers of the show, which, as Ford & Macrossan (2019) argue, is where this irony materializes. Our argument starts from the hypothesis that irony is a complex narrative resource, used by the series to incorporate the debate about gender in a funny way and supported by a lexicon of jargon and burning themes in contemporary quarrels.
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