Feminist television criticism
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Charlotte Brunsdon, Julie D'Acci and Lynn Spigel
Contributors: Brunsdon, Charlotte; D'Acci, Julie; Spigel, Lynn
Series: Oxford television studies
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
Subjects: Television criticism; Feminist criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: 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