On a Good Day, You Get to Kill a Whore: Narrative Misogyny and Female Audiences in Supernatural

In this paper, I attempt to analyze the function of gender messages in media texts and the engagement of audiences with these messages. I adopt an interdisciplinary approach, applying theoretical and methodological concepts from both film studies and audience studies, in order to develop a new model through which to study media texts and fans. I apply this model to an analysis of female characters in the television program Supernatural and to self-identified female fans of Supernatural. Throughout the paper, I contend that such an interdisciplinary model is necessary for understanding media texts and audiences, and I conclude that media fans act as academics in their reading and interpretation of media texts.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A. in Sociology

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Year dc:date.available

2011

Author dc:creator

• Richard, Jordan

Contributors dc:contributor

• Minjoo Oh
• Ross Haenfler
• Kirsten Dellinger

• Fans
• Female Audience
• Gender
• Media
• Television
• Sociology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/245

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:egrove.olemiss.edu:etd-1244