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Television and Women's Culture
The Politics of the Popular
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June 1990 | 256 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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.
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Mary Ellen Brown
Introduction
PART ONE: WOMEN AS AUDIENCES AND CRITICS
Virginia Nightingale
Women as Audiences
Caren Deming
For Television-Centered Television Criticism
Dorothy Hobson
Women Audiences and the Workplace
PART TWO: REPRESENTATION AND FANTASY: THE STRUCTURING OF FEMININE READING POSITIONS
Ien Ang
Melodramatic Identification
Lisa Lewis
Consumer Girl Culture
Sally Stockbridge
Rock Video
PART THREE: WOMEN AND TELEVISION GENRES
Danae Clark
`Cagney and Lacey'
John Fiske
Women and Quiz Shows
Beverly Poynten and John Hartley
Male Gazing
Andrea Press
Class, Gender and the Female Viewer
Mary Ellen Brown and Linda Barwick
Motley Moments
Mary Ellen Brown
Conclusion