A Study On The Presentation Of Female Consciousness And Audiences Influence Of Female TV Series

As an audiovisual medium,television is not only the reflection of mass culture,but also the builder of mass culture.It has a strong role of cultural demonstration and guidance.My Brilliant Friend,a phenomenal-level female TV series,is a series co-produced by HBO and Italy’s RAI TV.It is adapted from the famous novel The Neapolitan Novels by Italian writer Elena Ferrante.At present,it has been broadcast for three seasons and scored 9.3 or above on Douban.It is deeply loved by domestic audiences and is a feminist media text worthy of interpretation.Based on female experience and female subjectivity,female-themed films and television shows a strong female consciousness,and the gender concept contained in them will exert an important influence on the audience’s cognition and individual behavior psychology.Based on this,this study starts from female TV series,under the framework of gender and communication research and TV audience research,takes My Briliant Friend as an example to analyze the female consciousness presented from the perspective of media text,and to explore the text meaning reproduction and reconstruction of self-identity of audience from the perspective of audience.The main body of the thesis is divided into three chapters.The first chapter analyzes the female consciousness of the female TV series My Brilliant Friend.In terms of image,the play creates two “atypical” female images:Lila,the destructive rebel,and Lenu,the gentle rebel;In the theme,focus on female growth and individual gender experience expression;And through “she” narrative perspective and narrative language to complete women’s self-expression.The second chapter explores the audience’s text reproduction and interpretation mode based on the participatory observation of the Douban group and Wechat group of the TV series,as well as the crawled Douban comment texts.The audience’s discussion mainly focuses on the characters and gender-related themes of the TV series,and interprets them mostly from the standpoint of reference interpretation.The third chapter discusses the influence of female TV series on the identity construction of female audiences based on the interview data.When watching TV series,female audiences have the psychological effect of projecting and empathizing with plots and characters.In the dialogue with “mirror” others,they project the ideal self and self-confirm.Inspired by the experience of women breaking through gender norms and searching for themselves in TV series,female audiences are enlightened by awakening consciousness,rebuilding gender norm cognition and pursuing self-improvement.And to regain female gender identity and reconstruct gender identity.In the face of the reality that there are still gender differences,feminist thought brings courage and strength to individuals.