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Book SynopsisThe first edition of this book immediately became a defining text for feminist television criticism, with an influence extending across television, media and screen studies â and the second edition will be similarly agenda-setting. Completely revised and updated throughout, it takes into account the changes in the television industry, the academic field of television studies and the culture and politics of feminist movements.
With fifteen of the eighteen extracts being new to the second edition, the readings offer a detailed analysis of a wide range of case studies, topics and approaches, including genres, audiences, performers and programmes such as 'Sex and the City', âPrime Suspectâ, Oprah and Buffy.
With a new introduction to the volume tracing developments in the field and introductions to each thematic section, the editors engage in a series of debates surrounding the main issues of feminist television scholarship. They explore how television represents feminism and consid
Table of Contents
Introduction
Introduction to Part One: Programmes and Heroines
1. The Search for Tomorrow in Today’s Soap Operas: Notes on a Feminine Narrative Form - Tania Modleski
2. “Sex and the City” and Consumer Culture: Remediating Postfeminist Drama – Jane Arthurs
3. Women with a Mission: Lynda La Plante, DCI Jane Tennison and the Reconfiguration of TV Crime Drama – Deborah Jermyn
4.Divas, Evil Black Bitches, and Bitter Black Women: African-American Women in Postfeminist and Post-Civil Rights Popular Culture – Kimberly Springer
5.“Ellen”, Television and the Politics of Gay and Lesbian Visibility – Bonnie J. Dow
6.You’d Better Recognize: Oprah the Iconic and Television Talk – Beretta E. Smith-Shomade
7.“Take Responsibility for Yourself” Judge Judy and the Neoliberal Citizen – Laurie Ouellette
8.Feeling Like a Domestic Goddess: Postfeminism and Cooking – Joanne Hollows
9.Feminism Without Men: Feminist Media Studies in a Post-Feminist Age – Karen Boyle
10.Girls Rule! Gender, Feminism, and Nickelodeon – Sarah Banet-Weiser
11.The (In)visible Lesbian: Anxieties of representation in the L word – Susan J. Wolfe and Lee Ann Roripaugh
Introduction to Part Two: Audiences, Reception Contexts, and Spectatorship
12.Women’s Genres: Melodrama, Soap Opera, and Theory – Annette Kuhn
13. Melodromatic Identifications: Television Fiction and Women’s Fantasy – Ien Ang
14.National Texts and Gendered Lives: An Ethnography of Television Viewers in a North Indian City – Purnima Mankekar
15.Defining Asian Femininity: Chinese Viewers of Japanese TV Dramas in Singapore – Elizabeth MacLachlan and Geok-lian Chua
16.The Globalization of Gender: Ally McBeal in Post-Socialist Slovenia – Ksenija Vidmar-Horvat
17.The Performance and Reception of Televisual ‘Ugliness’ in “Yo soy Betty la Fea” – Yeidy M. Rivero
18.Sob Stories, Merriment, and Surprises: The 1950s Audience Participation Show on Network Television and Women’s Daytime Reception – Marsha F. Cassidy
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