Private screenings : television and the female consumer / Lynn Spigel and Denise Mann, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spigel, Lynn.

Mann, Denise.

Series:

Camera obscura book.

A Camera obscura book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television and women--United States.

Television and women.

Television viewers--United States.

Television viewers.

Women on television--United States.

Women on television.

Women's television programs--United States.

Women's television programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 293 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Analyzes how television delivers definitions of "femininity" to its female audiences. Includes a source guide for television shows from 1946-1970.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Installing the Television Set: Popular Discourses on Television and Domestic Space, 1948-1955; The Spectacularization of Everyday Life: Recycling Hollywood Stars and Fans in Early Television Variety Shows; The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television Programs; Sit-coms and Suburbs: Positioning the 1950's Homemaker; ""Is This What You Mean by Color TV?"": Race, Gender, and Contested Meanings in NBC's; Defining Women: The Case of Cagney and Lacey; Kate and Allie: ""New Women"" and the Audience's Television Archives

All's Well That Doesn't End - Soap Opera and the Marriage Motif All that Television Allows: TV Melodrama, Postmodernism, and Consumer Culture; Source Guide to TV Family Comedy, Drama, and Serial Drama, 1946-1970; Contributors; Index

Notes:

An expanded version of issue no. 16, winter 1988, of Camera obscura.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8425-1

OCLC:

191943710