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Screen tastes soap opera to satellite dishes Charlotte Brunsdon

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London Routledge 1997ISBN:
  • 041512154X
  • 0415121558
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.45 BRU
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Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 791.45 BRU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002000169848

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Charlotte Brundson's key writings on film and television are bought together with new introductions which contextualise and update the arguments. The focus is on the tastes and pleasures of the female consumer as she is produced by popular film and television.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgements (p. ix)
  • General Introduction (p. 1)
  • Part I The Defence of Soap Opera (p. 7)
  • Introduction (p. 9)
  • Chapter 1 Crossroads: Notes on Soap Opera (p. 13)
  • Chapter 2 Writing About Soap Opera (p. 19)
  • Chapter 3 Feminism and Soap Opera (p. 26)
  • Chapter 4 The Role of Soap Opera in the Development of Feminist Television Criticism (p. 29)
  • Part II Career Girls (p. 45)
  • Introduction (p. 47)
  • Chapter 5 A Subject for the Seventies (p. 54)
  • Chapter 6 Men's Genres for Women (p. 67)
  • Chapter 7 Post-Feminism and Shopping Films (p. 81)
  • Part III Questions of Quality (p. 103)
  • Introduction (p. 105)
  • Chapter 8 Aesthetics and Audiences (p. 112)
  • Chapter 9 Problems with Quality (p. 124)
  • Chapter 10 Satellite Dishes and the Landscapes of Taste (p. 148)
  • Part IV Feminist Identities (p. 165)
  • Introduction (p. 167)
  • Chapter 11 Pedagogies of the Feminine (p. 172)
  • Chapter 12 Identity in Feminist Television Criticism (p. 189)
  • Notes (p. 199)
  • Bibliography of Works Cited (p. 210)
  • Index (p. 229)

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