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Private Screenings Television and the Female Consumer Lynn Spigel and Denise Mann, editors |
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Analyzes how television delivers definitions of "femininity" to its female audiences. Includes a source guide for television shows from 1946-1970. "'This book contains competent studies that will probably be of most interest to students of media, communications and images in popular culture. Non-specialist fans of the shows discussed will also have great fun seconding or contesting the authors' conclusions." —Women's Review "This collection represents the cutting edge of feminist cultural criticism today—a heady mixture of substantive historical studies, innovative reception analyses, and sophisticated textual work. This wide-ranging approach brings a richness and texture to the topics being analyzed and effectively demonstrates the (by now axiomatic) principle of cultural studies as a multilayered project." —Contemporary Sociology Contributors: Julie D'Acci, Sarah Berry, Aniko Bodroghkozy, Robert H. Deming, Dan Einstein, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, Mary Beth Haralovich, Lynne Joyrich, William Lafferty, Nina Liebman, George Lipsitz, Denise Mann, Lynn Spigel, Jillian Steinberger and Randall Vogt. Denise Mann is associate professor of film, TV, and digital media at UCLA. She is the author of Hollywood Independents: The Postwar Talent Takeover. 294 pages | 1992 TABLE OF CONTENTS Installing the Television Set: Popular Discourses on Television and Domestic Space, 1948-1955 The Spectacularization of Everyday Life: Recycling Hollywood Stars and Fans in Early Television Variety Shows The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television Programs Sit-coms and Suburbs: Positioning the 1950s Homemaker “Is This What You Mean by Color TV?”: Race, Gender, and Contested Meanings in NBC’s Julia Defining Women: The Case of Cagney and Lacey Kate and Allie: “New Women” and the Audience’s Television Archives All’s Well That Doesn’t End—Soap Opera and the Marriage Motif All that Television Allows: TV Melodrama, Postmodernism, and Consumer Culture Source Guide to TV Family Comedy, Drama, and Serial Drama, 1946-1970 Contributors |
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$25.00 paper