The movie of the week [[electronic resource] ] : private stories/public events / / Elayne Rapping

• Autore: Rapping Elayne <1938->
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1992
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.23/45/0973
• Soggetto topico: Television and women - United States; Television broadcasting of films - United States; Television broadcasting - Social aspects - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The movie of the week
• ISBN: 0-8166-8411-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457866903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American culture (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; ; 5.