Intertextual Relations in Television Seriality

Good Girls Revolt’s Case

Abstract

The series Good Girls Revolt (Amazon Studios, 2016) tells the true story of the Newsweek journalists' lawsuit for labor discrimination in 1973. It’s rich in intertextual relations, as it is framed in the convulsive decade of the 60s —the genesis of the counterculture —and within the framework of radical changes in the social and political environment. The series focuses on the story from the female experience, which favors the emphasis on the themes of patriarchy and gender roles, fundamental concepts of modern feminism. Based on authors such as Genette, Batjin, Kristeva, and Zavala, the analysis of intertextual relations has allowed the development of an interpretative panorama in the light of the preceding and concomitant texts of the series and its sociocultural context in their vertical and horizontal dimensions, including the marks of popular culture, feminism, and the editorial stance towards the historical facts of the time.