Sears’ New Nook Explores TV Series ‘Killing Eve’
Professor of Sociology and Sexuality Studies Clare Sears has a new book forthcoming from Wayne State University Press.
“Killing Eve” offers the first book-length scholarly study of the groundbreaking television series, examining how it reimagines gender, sexuality, violence and the spy genre through a queer feminist lens.
Combining close textual analysis with production history and exclusive interviews with creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge and executive producer Sally Woodward Gentle, Sears argues that the series transformed television by placing queer women’s desires at the center of a mainstream thriller narrative while challenging longstanding assumptions about gender, sexuality and psychopathy. This book offers a new framework for understanding queer representation, television authorship and audience engagement in the streaming era.