|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910813090703321 |
|
|
Autore |
Rapping Elayne <1938-> |
|
|
Titolo |
The movie of the week : private stories/public events / / Elayne Rapping |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1992 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (xliii, 162 pages) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
American culture ; ; v. 5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Television and women - United States |
Television broadcasting of films - United States |
Television broadcasting - Social aspects - United States |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-155) and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 The American Dream Machine: Movies for Large and Small Screens; Chapter 2 Genre, Narrative, and the Public Sphere; Chapter 3 Feminist Theory and the TV Movie: What the Genre Does Best; Chapter 4 TV Movies As Women's Genre; Chapter 5 TV Movies As History: Class, Race, and the Past; Afterword; Bibliography; Index |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Here's a sophisticated, against-the-grain study of the politics of popular TV by Elayne Rapping. The essays in this work focus on a particular genre: the made-for-TV movie, which is usually dismissed as schmaltzy, low-brow, vacuous, apolitical fare by contemptuous critics. But Rapping takes on this prevailing elitist attitude; she defends many of these movies for being public events that wrestle with urgent social issues, and she argues that they often carry progressive, even subversive, messages, albeit in a contradictory way. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |