by Brunsdon, Charlotte; D'Acci, Julie; Spigel, Lynn
Book / 1997
TitleFeminist television criticism : a reader
Item typeBook
Author(s)
  • Brunsdon, Charlotte
  • D'Acci, Julie
  • Spigel, Lynn
ImprintOxford Clarendon Press ; 1997
SeriesOxford television studies
ISBN
  • 0198711522
  • 0198711530
LanguageEnglish
URLLink to original record
Notes
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • pt. 1. Housewives, heroines, feminists. Everyday life (excerpt) / Michèle Mattelart ; The search for tomorrow in today's soap operas / Tania Modleski ; Affirmation and denial : construction of femininity on Indian television (excerpts) / Prabha Krishnan and Anita Dighe ; Situation comedy, feminism, and Freud : discourses of Gracie and Lucie / Patricia Mellencamp ; Roseanne : unruly woman as domestic goddess / Kathleen K. Rowe ; L.A. Law and prime- time feminism / Judith Mayne ; Empowering women? The Oprah Winfrey show / Corinne Squire ; Identity in feminist television criticism / Charlotte Brunsdon ; New traditionalism and post-feminism : TV does the home / Elspeth Probyn -- pt. 2. Audiences and reception contexts. Women's genres / Annette Kuhn ; Melodramatic identifications : television fiction and women's fantasy / Ien Ang ; Black feminism and media criticism : the Women of Brewster Place /Jacqueline Bobo and Ellen Seiter ; In love with Inspector Morse / Lyn Thomas ; Fruitful investigations : the case of the successful lesbian text / Hilary Hinds ; The suburban home companion : television and the neighbourhood ideal in post-war America / Lynn Spigel ; Behind closed doors : video recorders in the home / Ann Gray -- pt. 3. Private bodies, public figures.
  • Television tales and a woman's rage : a nationalist recasting of Draupadi's disrobing / Purima Manekar ; Leading up to Roe v. Wade : television documentaries in the abortion debate / Julie D'Acci ; The ideology of freshness in feminine hygiene commercials / Kate Kane ; Never trust a big butt and a smile / Tricia Rose ; The gorgeous lesbian in L.A. Law : the present absence? / Rosanne Kennedy ; Reproducing reality : Murphy Brown and illegitimate politics / Rebecca L. Walkowitz ; Representation wars : Malaysia, Embassy and Australia's corps diplomatique / Suvendrini Perera.
  • Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.
Physical descriptionxi, 387 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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1997
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Brunsdon, CharlotteD'Acci, JulieSpigel, Lynn
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