Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader - Hardcover
Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader was first published in 1997 by Oxford University Press and immediately became a defining work in the area of feminist media criticism. This second edition is completely updated with 18 of the 25 extracts being new to the second edition. As with other Readers that we've published there will be an editor's introduction to the main volume as well as an editor's introduction to each section. The introduction to the first edition will be kept but will be accompanied by an entirely new introduction. New subjects discussed include alternative family structures, de-westernizing media studies, industry practices, Sex and the City, Oprah and Buffy.
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The first edition of this book immediately became a defining text for feminist television criticism, with an influence extending across television, media and screen studies - and the second edition will be similarly agenda-setting. Completely revised and updated throughout, it takes into account the changes in the television industry, the academic field of television studies and the culture and politics of feminist movements.
About the Author:
With fifteen of the eighteen extracts being new to the second edition, the readings offer a detailed analysis of a wide range of case studies, topics and approaches, including genres, audiences, performers and programmes such as 'Sex and the City', `Prime Suspect', Oprah and Buffy.
With a new introduction to the volume tracing developments in the field and introductions to each thematic section, the editors engage in a series of debates surrounding the main issues of feminist television scholarship. They explore how television represents feminism and consider how critics themselves have created feminism and post-feminism as historical categories and political identities. Readings consider women who are engaged in various aspects of television production on both sides of the camera and examine how television targets and imagines its female audience, as well as how women respond to and use television in their everyday lives.
Feminist Television Criticism is inspiring reading for film, media, cultural and gender studies students.
Charlotte Brunsdon is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of "The Feminist, the Housewife and the Soap Opera" (OUP 2000) and "Screen Tastes" (Routledge 1997).
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- PublisherOpen Univ Pr
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0335225446
- ISBN 13 9780335225446
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number2
- Number of pages370
- EditorBrunsdon Charlotte
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