Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader

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 â 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. 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' âPrime Suspectâ 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. Contributors: Ien Ang Jane Arthurs Sarah Banet-Weiser Karen Boyle Marsha F. Cassidy Geok-lian Chua Bonnie J. Dow Joanne Hollows Deborah Jermyn Annette Kuhn Elizabeth MacLachlan Purnima Mankekar Tania Modleski Laurie Ouellette Yeidy M. Rivero Lee Ann Roripaugh Beretta E. Smith-Shomade Kimberly Springer Ksenija Vidmar-Horvat Susan J. Wolfe. . Language: English