From happy homemaker to desperate housewives [[electronic resource] ] : motherhood and popular television / / Rebecca Feasey

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452789203321
• Autore: Feasey Rebecca
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Anthem Press, 2012
• ISBN: 0-85728-225-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.450941
• Soggetti: Mothers on television; Television programs - Great Britain; Television programs - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: theorising motherhood on the small screen -- Soap opera: challenging the "good" mother stereotype -- Situation comedy: the (un)funny mummy wars -- Teen drama: absent, inept and intoxicated mothers -- Dramedy: struggling, sexual and sisterly single mothers -- Reality parenting programming: fragile, failing and ineffectual mothers -- Celebrity reality television: maintaining the "yummy mummy" -- Profile -- Factual television: pregnancy, delivery and the new mother -- Conclusion.