| Collation |
x, 253 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Oxford television studies |
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Oxford television studies.
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| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-245) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Mapping the fields. Women's genres and female agency. 2. Early work on soap opera : "worrying responsibility." The housewife in 1940s mass communication research : Arnheim, Kaufman, and Herzog -- Feminists taking soap opera seriously : the work of Carol Lopate, Michèle Mattelart, and Tania Modleski -- Fantasies of the housewife : the case of Crossroads. 3. Talking soap opera. Autobiography and ethnography -- "I don't think we thought about it as studying soap operas" : Christine Geraghty -- "What about the rest of the audience?" : Dorothy Hobson -- "Slightly guilty pleasures" : Terry Lovell -- "The pleasure of a programme like this is not something simple" : Ien Ang -- "A sense of trying to valorize soap opera as women's TV" : Ellen Seiter -- Commonalities : writing across the interviews -- The feminist, the housewife, and the soap opera |
| Subject |
Television soap operas -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
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Television soap operas -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Feminist television criticism -- Great Britain.
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Feminist television criticism -- United States.
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| ISBN |
0198159803 |
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0198159811 (pbk.) |
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