Television for women : new directions / edited by Rachel Moseley, Helen Wheatley and Helen Wood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moseley, Rachel, editor.

Wheatley, Helen, 1974- editor.

Wood, Helen, 1972- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women on television.

Women's television programs.

Television and women--History.

Television and women.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 266 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

Television for Women brings together emerging and established scholars to reconsider the question of 'television for women'. In the context of the 2000s, when the potential meanings of both terms have expanded and changed so significantly, in what ways might the concept of programming, addressed explicitly to a group identified by gender still matter? The essays in this collection take the existing scholarship in this field in significant new directions. They expand its reach in terms of territory (looking beyond, for example, the paradigmatic Anglo-American axis) and also historical span. Additionally, whilst the influential methodological formation of production, text and audience is still visible here, the new research in Television for Women frequently reconfigures that relationship. The topics included here are far-reaching; from television as material culture at the British exhibition in the first half of the twentieth century, women's roles in television production past and present, to popular 1960s television such as The Liver Birds and, in the twenty-first century, highly successful programmes including Orange is the New Black, Call the Midwife, One Born Every Minute and Wanted Down Under. This book presents ground-breaking research on historical and contemporary relationships between women and television around the world and is an ideal resource for students of television, media and gender studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Women and work 13

1 Women's history, women's work: popular television as feminine historiography / Moya Luckett Luckett, Moya 15

2 The feminisation of contemporary British television drama: Sally Wainwright and Red Production / Ruth McElroy McElroy, Ruth 34

3 'Women pushed their way forward and became quite a force within the BBC: women's roles in television production and the production of programmes for women / Vanessa Jackson Jackson, Vanessa 53

Part II Women and identity 71

4 Catfight! Camp and queer visibility in Orange is the New Black / Dana A. Heller Heller, Dana A. 73

5 Brown girls who don't need saving: social media and the role of 'possessive investment' in The Mindy Project and The Good Wife / Sujata Moorti Moorti, Sujata 90

6 Watching One Born Every Minute: negotiating the terms of the 'good birth' / Sara De Benedictis Benedictis, Sara De 110

7 Sex, class and consumerism: British sitcom's negotiation of the single girl / Vicky Ball Ball, Vicky 128

Part III Formations of women's television 149

8 Feminist television or television for women? Revisiting the launch of Canada's Women's Television Network / Sarah A. Matheson Matheson, Sarah A. 151

9 Tradition and innovation: Italian women's channels, factual entertainment and the significance of generation in women's viewing preferences / Cecilia Penati Penati, Cecilia, Anna Sfardini Sfardini, Anna 167

10 Producing domestic abuse in Pakistani television: between commerce, ratings and social responsibility / Munira Cheema Cheema, Munira 183

Part IV Women and the home 203

11 Television in the ideal home / Helen Wheatley Wheatley, Helen 205

12 'I've been having fantasies about Regan and Carter three times a week': television, women and desire / Hazel Collie Collie, Hazel 223

13 Dreaming of the 'good life": gender, mobility and anxiety in Wanted Down Under / Jilly Boyce Kay Kay, Jilly Boyce, Helen Wood Wood, Helen 241.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138914285

1138914282

9781138914292

1138914290

OCLC:

954134025