The movie of the week : private stories/public events / Elayne Rapping.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rapping, Elayne, 1938-

Series:

American culture (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; 5.

American culture ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television and women--United States.

Television and women.

Television broadcasting of films--United States.

Television broadcasting of films.

Television broadcasting--Social aspects--United States.

Television broadcasting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xliii, 162 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Here's a sophisticated, against-the-grain study of the politics of popular TV by Elayne Rapping. The essays in this work focus on a particular genre: the made-for-TV movie, which is usually dismissed as schmaltzy, low-brow, vacuous, apolitical fare by contemptuous critics. But Rapping takes on this prevailing elitist attitude; she defends many of these movies for being public events that wrestle with urgent social issues, and she argues that they often carry progressive, even subversive, messages, albeit in a contradictory way.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 The American Dream Machine: Movies for Large and Small Screens; Chapter 2 Genre, Narrative, and the Public Sphere; Chapter 3 Feminist Theory and the TV Movie: What the Genre Does Best; Chapter 4 TV Movies As Women's Genre; Chapter 5 TV Movies As History: Class, Race, and the Past; Afterword; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-155) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8411-1

OCLC:

476093045