Screen Tastes

Soap Opera to Satellite Dishes
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-415-12154-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Charlotte Brundson's key writings on film and television are bought together with new introductions which contextualise and update the arguments. The focus is on the tastes and pleasures of the female consumer as she is produced by popular film and television.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brunsdon, Charlotte

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Radio- und Fernsehindustrie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Filmindustrie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Fernsehen & Rundfunk

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General introduction Part I The defence of soap opera 1 Crossroads: notes on soap opera 2 Writing about soap opera 3 Feminism and soap opera 4 The role of soap opera in the development of feminist television criticism Part II Career girls 5 A subject for the seventies 6 Men’s genres for women 7 Post-feminism and shopping films Part III Questions of quality 8 Aesthetics and audiences 9 Problems with quality 10 Satellite dishes and the landscapes of taste Part IV Feminist identities 11 Pedagogies of the feminine 12 Identity in feminist television criticism

Über Autor(innen)

Charlotte Brunsdon teaches in the Department of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. She edited the collection Films for Women (1986) and is the co-editor, with Julie D’Acci and Lynn Spigel, of Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader (1997).