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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452789203321

Autore

Feasey Rebecca

Titolo

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

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.