{"title":"The Teenage Latina Genius on Television: Netflix’s Ashley Garcia","authors":"Diana Leon-Boys, Claudia Bucciferro","doi":"10.1080/07491409.2022.2147676","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines a recent mediated version of Latina girlhood, the teenage science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) genius, through an analysis of a Netflix original series: Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love (2020). The series offers a representation of girlhood that does not fully align with either the “at-risk” or the “can-do” girls that have appeared previously on television. By conducting a qualitative analysis that highlights key episodes, we interrogate the layered representation of Latina girlhood offered in the show, focusing on two aspects: how the title character, Ashley, appears as a particular embodiment of a contemporary Latina teenager, and how she is narratively positioned in the story line. Our findings suggest that the series showcases a complex albeit ambiguous and ambivalent representation of Latina girlhood. This portrayal is exaggerated and fantastic and ultimately falls back on common tropes found in teen-oriented television.","PeriodicalId":46136,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies in Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Womens Studies in Communication","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2022.2147676","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract This article examines a recent mediated version of Latina girlhood, the teenage science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) genius, through an analysis of a Netflix original series: Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love (2020). The series offers a representation of girlhood that does not fully align with either the “at-risk” or the “can-do” girls that have appeared previously on television. By conducting a qualitative analysis that highlights key episodes, we interrogate the layered representation of Latina girlhood offered in the show, focusing on two aspects: how the title character, Ashley, appears as a particular embodiment of a contemporary Latina teenager, and how she is narratively positioned in the story line. Our findings suggest that the series showcases a complex albeit ambiguous and ambivalent representation of Latina girlhood. This portrayal is exaggerated and fantastic and ultimately falls back on common tropes found in teen-oriented television.
本文通过对Netflix原创剧集《Ashley Garcia: genius in Love》(2020)的分析,研究了最近的拉丁女孩时代,即青少年科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)天才。这个系列提供了一个少女时代的代表,与之前在电视上出现的“危险”或“能干”女孩不完全一致。通过对关键剧集进行定性分析,我们探究了剧中拉美裔少女时代的分层表现,重点关注两个方面:标题角色阿什利(Ashley)是如何作为当代拉美裔少女的具体体现出现的,以及她在故事情节中的叙事定位。我们的研究结果表明,该系列展示了一个复杂的,尽管模棱两可和矛盾的拉丁女孩的代表性。这种描述是夸张的、梦幻的,最终回到了青少年电视节目中常见的比喻。