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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457873003321

Titolo

Private screenings [[electronic resource] ] : television and the female consumer / / Lynn Spigel and Denise Mann, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1992

ISBN

0-8166-8425-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 p.)

Collana

A Camera obscura book

Altri autori (Persone)

SpigelLynn

MannDenise

Disciplina

302.23

302.2345082

Soggetti

Television and women - United States

Television viewers - United States

Women on television - United States

Women's television programs - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

An expanded version of issue no. 16, winter 1988, of Camera obscura.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Installing the Television Set: Popular Discourses on Television and Domestic Space, 1948-1955; The Spectacularization of Everyday Life: Recycling Hollywood Stars and Fans in Early Television Variety Shows; The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television Programs; Sit-coms and Suburbs: Positioning the 1950's Homemaker; ""Is This What You Mean by Color TV?"": Race, Gender, and Contested Meanings in NBC's; Defining Women: The Case of Cagney and Lacey; Kate and Allie: ""New Women"" and the Audience's Television Archives

All's Well That Doesn't End - Soap Opera and the Marriage Motif All that Television Allows: TV Melodrama, Postmodernism, and Consumer Culture; Source Guide to TV Family Comedy, Drama, and Serial Drama, 1946-1970; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Analyzes how television delivers definitions of "femininity" to its female audiences. Includes a source guide for television shows from 1946-1970.