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.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.`provocative reading for anyone interested in what is going on in cultural studies' - Contemporary Sociology
`This anthology of feminist culturalist television criticism brings together the works of US, European, and Australian researchers in a collection that will prove useful to undergraduate and graduate students of women's studies, mass communications, and cultural studies. The introduction provides a succinct explanation of the theoretical groundings of this growing body of research. Clear definitions of terminology are found throughout the volume, making this book accessible to those unschooled in feminist theory. The volume furnishes examples of feminist audience research and provides much-needed examples of feminist television content analysis. The question of women and television il#Ô
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