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With its bold depiction of four female friends navigating the pitfalls of Manhattan's dating scene, Sex and the City, which aired on HBO from 1998 to 2004, was a unique television drama that evolved into a ubiquitous and widely debated cultural phenomenon. Deborah Jermyn's Sex and the City investigates the program's critical and popular success as well as its lasting cultural impact. To give readers a complete picture of Sex and the City, Jermyn draws on close textual analysis of selected episodes, existing critical work on the program, testimonies from its stars and producers, and...

Prime Suspect, starring Helen Mirren asDCI Jane Tennison, was a grim UK police drama that becameone of the most talked about programs in recent memory. DeborahJermyn's study of the series examinesexactly what made Prime Suspect so distinctive, so controversial and, ultimately, so influential, its innovations transformingthe tv crime drama. Jermyn places the series in the context of tv crime fictions that had gone before it, particularly those featuring female detectives, such as Cagney and Lacey.

Jermyn also addresses the institutionalized sexism and misogyny...

Female Celebrity and Ageing: Back in the Spotlight interrogates the myriad ways in which celebrity culture constructs highly visible ideologies of femininity and ageing, and how ageing female celebrities have negotiated the media in a variety of industrial, historical and national contexts. In the era when the baby boomers have started drawing their pensions, the boundaries of what constitutes old age have never seemed more fluid, and ageing has never been presented by advertisers and marketers in a more dynamic fashion.

However, the fact remains that ageing is still widely feared, and...