Television after the network era
By: Amanda D. Lotz.
Series: Feminist studies and media culture
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Urbana and Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780252030673; 9780252073106
Subjects: Women on television; Television programs for women -- United States; Television and women -- United States; Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Women's brands and brands of women : segmenting audiences and network identities; title: 2. Fighting for families and femininity : the hybrid narratives of the action drama; title: 3. Sex, careers, and Mr. Right in comedic dramas : the "new" new women of Ally McBeal and Sex and the city; title: 4. Same story, different cannel?  Returning home and starting over in protagonist-centered family dramas; title: 5. Of female cops and docs : the reformulation of workplace dramas and other trends in mixed-sex ensembles.