Bøker av Karin Beeler

Addresses the pervasive representation of women with unique visionary abilities in postfeminist television series and films from the 1990s onwards. This book offers an examination of several television series or films which use these legendary women as key prototypes or points of departure for their own heroines or protagonists.

Exploring tattoo as a narrative concept, this book highlights it in context of resistance and marginality, and draws attention to the relationship between the visual and the narrative components of its culture. It portrays its use, effects, and narratives on Holocaust victims, slaves and colonized peoples, gangs and inmates and other societies.