Jorie Lagerwey

Lecturer in Television StudiesUniversity College Dublin

jorie.lagerwey@ucd.ie

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FX Brand Feminism and Justified's Older Women

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Jorie Lagerwey University College Dublin

April 28, 2014
4 comments

FX Brand Feminism and Justified's Older Women Justified FX and Women of a Certain Age FX feminism Curator's Note FX is one of the US’s most successful basic cable channels with a brand that blends violence, (predominantly) masculine melodrama, a ...
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The Good Wife and Religion for Liberals

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Jorie Lagerwey University College Dublin

March 19, 2012
4 comments

The Good Wife and Religion for Liberals The Good Wife religious representations on television liberalism Curator's Note There are any number of reasons one might cite for the prominence of religious rhetoric in American public discourse in the last d ...

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Re: FX Brand Feminism and Justified's Older Women

Thanks!

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Jorie Lagerwey University College Dublin

Tuesday, April 29, 2014 — 8:48 am
Thanks for all your great comments. I haven't followed AHS very closely, so I don't know how qualified I am to talk about Jessica Lange's performance, although she does, as you've pointed out, discuss being an aging actress quite often ...
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Re: The Grandmother as Godfather: Justified’s Mags Bennett

More Mags!

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Jorie Lagerwey University College Dublin

Tuesday, April 29, 2014 — 9:02 am
Elizabeth, you've picked another brilliant moment from Justified's stand-out season to focus on. Mags's persona, and her cover identity, as you pointed out, are so loaded with markers not just of the maternal, but of the rural and pastoral. ...
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Re: The Good Wife and Religion for Liberals

Liberals, Conservatives, and Freud, oh my!

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Jorie Lagerwey University College Dublin

Tuesday, March 20, 2012 — 4:45 pm
Thank you so much for your comments, Kyle, Charlotte, and Adryan. Adryan, I have never thought of the parallels you describe between sexual and religious awakening and challenges of parenting through those times, so thank you for your insight. Kyle and Ch ...