Kate Finch completed a study on the popular HBO series, True Blood. The research was an analysis of the Vampire Rights Amendment through public relations in pop culture and the theme of post feminism. The research is about the view post feminism view of public relations in pop culture using True Blood as a model. It shows the use of promotion, persuasion and public relations to draw in an audience. “Views interpretations are profoundly influenced by the social discourse in which they are interrelated.” (Brunsdon and Spigel,, 2007, pg. 260) It is important cause it gives the audience a deeper view of the feminism culture in popular culture, while allowing people to people it in the form of a television show that they would be able to spot and …show more content…
“Part of the genius of post feminism is to co—opt the language of feminism and then attach it to some kind of consumer behavior that feeds young people’s hunger for uniqueness.” (Brunsdon and Spigel, Lynn, 2007, pg. 74) The research has done an academic study on pop culture and public relations, post-feminism and pop culture and on True Blood and postfeminist Gothic .The researcher uses representations of public relations in the entire series and uses public relations popular culture, and post feminism to show how public relations practitioners and public relations activity to identify the volatility of identity. “Potential volatility and impetus of a multiplicity of micro struggles, mirco particularites, operating not simply at the level of the subject but also within and as the subject.” (Grosz, 1994, pg. 176) The researcher decides to use different steps to analyze the data that is …show more content…
Public Relations in pop culture often seems to differ from the same tend as public relations is in real life. In real life, women dominate the field of public relations, but in pop culture it is normally a white male in the role. The association of women in public relations roles only came from using them to show a love affair. They show young attractive woman that normally fall in the stereotype of being a white, single, middle class member of society. It is also very common that they do a terrible job actually depicting what a public relations practitioner would complete as their day-to-day activities. Instead of attempting creating and maintain a good image for their client, and writing material for media releases and planning other promotionally events, on television, they are portrayed as a magician that simply completes a task with the snap of a finger. Nan Flanagan is the public relations practitioner on True Blood, and she is the face of the American Vampire League. Flanagan is an avid believer in the vampire case to integrate Vampires into society and pushes for them to be accept by society as a whole. She is a member of the “Vampire Authority” and is ranked higher by all vampires. Her main concerned with the public views of vampires and perception of everything through the realm of public relations. Nan begins being shown as a rational and