Television and women's culture : the politics of the popular

Author(s)

• Brown, Mary Ellen

Bibliographic Information

Television and women's culture : the politics of the popular

edited by Mary Ellen Brown

（Communication and human values）

Sage, 1990

• : hard
• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. 223-235

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In this book an international team of contributors examines critically the relationship between television and women's culture. Although they recognize that television frequently distorts and oppresses women's experience, the authors avoid a simplistic manipulative view of the media. Instead they show how and why such different genres as game shows, police fiction and soap opera offer women opportunities for negotiation of their own meanings and their own aesthetic appreciation. Not for sale in Australia or New Zealand.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Mary Ellen Brown Feminist Culturalist Television Criticism Culture, Theory, Practice PART ONE: WOMEN AS AUDIENCES AND CRITICS Women as Audiences - Virginia Nightingale For Television-Centered Television Criticism - Caren Deming Lessons from Feminism Women Audiences and the Workplace - Dorothy Hobson PART TWO: REPRESENTATION AND FANTASY: THE STRUCTURING OF FEMININE READING POSITIONS Melodramatic Identification - Ien Ang Television Fiction and Women's Fantasy Consumer Girl Culture - Lisa Lewis How Music Video Appeals to Girls Rock Video - Sally Stockbridge Pleasure and Resistance PART THREE: WOMEN AND TELEVISION GENRES `Cagney and Lacey' - Danae Clark Feminine Strategies of Detection Women and Quiz Shows - John Fiske Consumerism, Patriarchy and Resisting Pleasures Male Gazing - Beverly Poynten and John Hartley Australian Rules Football, Gender and Television Class, Gender and the Female Viewer - Andrea Press Women's Responses to `Dynasty' Motley Moments - Mary Ellen Brown and Linda Barwick Soap Opera, Carnival, Gossip and the Power of the Utterance Conclusion - Mary Ellen Brown Consumption and Resistance - The Problem of Pleasure

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Details

• NCID: BA10690521
• ISBN:
  • 0803982283
  • 9780803982291
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 244 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • DC20 : 305.4
• Subject Headings:
  • PRECIS : Women. Influence of television programmes
  • LCSH : Television and women
  • LCSH : Television viewers
  • LCSH : Television criticism
  • LCSH : Feminist criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0512635X