This article critically analyzes the popular television show,Ally McBeal, with a specific focus on how women and ethnic minorities are stereotypically portrayed. Through Complicity Theory, Standpoint Feminist, and Womanism, this article contends that the mediated representations of women and ethnic minorities onAlly McBeal are largely negative, and that stereotypical images of these groups continue to be perpetuated in the media. In an effort to interrogate and problematize these mediated images; that is, what is “womanhood” and who are “ethnic minorities,” a move from complicity to implicature theory is offered.
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