Prime Time Feminism

Author : Bonnie J. Dow
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0812215540

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Prime-Time Feminism by Bonnie J. Dow Pdf

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Dow discusses a wide variety of television programming and provides specific case studies of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, One Day at a Time, Designing Women, Murphy Brown, and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. She juxtaposes analyses of genre, plot, character development, and narrative structure with the larger debates over feminism that took place at the time the programs originally aired. Dow emphasizes the power of the relationships among television entertainment, news media, women's magazines, publicity, and celebrity biographies and interviews in creating a framework through which television viewers "make sense" of both the medium's portrayal of feminism and the nature of feminism itself.

Author : Lisa M. Cuklanz
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812204001

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Rape on Prime Time by Lisa M. Cuklanz Pdf

Depictions of rape on television have evolved dramatically, from hard-boiled stories about male detectives to more insightful shows focusing on rape victims. Rape on Prime Time is the first book to examine those changing depictions of rape. Lisa M. Cuklanz reveals that prime-time television programs during the 1970s—usually detective shows—reflected traditional ideas that "real" rape is perpetrated by brutal strangers upon passive victims. Beginning in 1980, depictions of rape began to include attacks by known assailants, and victims began to address their feelings. By 1990, scripts portrayed date and marital rape and paid greater attention to the trial process, reflecting legal reformers' concerns. While previous studies have examined one series or genre, Cuklanz examines programs as dissimilar as Barney Miller, Dallas, The Cosby Show, and Quincy. She outlines the "basic plot" for rape episodes, then traces the historical development of rape themes. In each chapter she includes close analyses of episodes that add depth to findings derived from scripts and taped episodes. Rape on Prime Time provides important insight into the social construction of rape in mainstream mass media since the inception of rape law reform in 1974.

Author : Bonnie J. Dow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1431081281

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PRIME-TIME feminism by Bonnie J. Dow Pdf

Author : Shawn J. Parry-Giles
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252092091

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The Prime-Time Presidency by Shawn J. Parry-Giles Pdf

Contrasting strong women and multiculturalism with portrayals of a heroic white male leading the nation into battle, The Prime-Time Presidency explores the NBC drama The West Wing, paying particular attention to its role in promoting cultural meaning about the presidency and U.S. nationalism. Based in a careful, detailed analysis of the "first term" of The West Wing's President Josiah Bartlet, this criticism highlights the ways the text negotiates powerful tensions and complex ambiguities at the base of U.S. national identity--particularly the role of gender, race, and militarism in the construction of U.S. nationalism. Unlike scattered and disparate collections of essays, Trevor Parry-Giles and Shawn J. Parry-Giles offer a sustained, ideologically driven criticism of The West Wing. The Prime-time Presidency presents a detailed critique of the program rooted in presidential history, an appreciation of television's power as a source of political meaning, and television's contribution to the articulation of U.S. national identity.

Author : Ritch Calvin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786454945

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Gilmore Girls and the Politics of Identity by Ritch Calvin Pdf

This work examines the Gilmore Girls from a post-feminist perspective, evaluating how the show's main female characters and supporting cast fit into the classic portrayal of feminine identity on popular television. The book begins by placing Gilmore Girls in the context of the history of feminism and feminist television shows such as Mary Tyler Moore and One Day at a Time. The remainder of the essays look at series' portrayal of traditional and non-traditional gender identities and familial relationships. Topics include the hyper-real utopia represented by Gilmore Girls' fictional Stars Hollow; the faux-feminist perspective offered by Rory Gilmore's unfulfilling (and often masochistic) romantic relationships; the ways in which "mean girl" Paris Geller both adheres to and departs from the traditional archetype of female power and aggression; and the role of Lorelai Gilmore's oft-criticized marriage in destroying the show's central theme of single motherhood during its seventh season. The work also studies the role of food and its consumption as a narrative device throughout the show's development, evaluating the ways in which food negotiates, defines, and upholds the characters' gendered and class performances. The work also includes a complete episode guide listing the air date, title, writer, and director of every episode in the series.

Author : Todd Gitlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134886586

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Inside Prime Time by Todd Gitlin Pdf

Prime time: those precious few hours every night when the three major television networks garner millions of dollars while tens of millions of Americans tune in. Inside Prime Time is a classic study of the workings of the Hollywood television industry, newly available with an updated introduction. Inside Prime Time takes us behind the scenes to reveal how prime-time shows get on the air, stay on the air, and are shaped by the political and cultural climate of their times. It provides an ethnography of the world of American commercial television, an analysis of that world's unwritten rules, and the most extensive study of the industry ever made.

Author : Lynn Spigel
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822326965

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Welcome to the Dreamhouse by Lynn Spigel Pdf

DIVHistorical and theoretical essays on television and media culture by a leading feminist studies scholar./div

Author : Shoma Munshi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000052244

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Prime Time Soap Operas on Indian Television by Shoma Munshi Pdf

This book examines the phenomenon of prime time soap operas on Indian television. An anthropological insight into social issues and practices of contemporary India through the television, this volume analyzes the production of soaps within India’s cultural fabric. It deconstructs themes and issues surrounding the "everyday" and the "middle class" through the fiction of the "popular". In its second edition, this still remains the only book to examine prime time soap operas on Indian television. Without in any way changing the central arguments of the first edition, it adds an essential introductory chapter tracking the tectonic shifts in the Indian "mediascape" over the past decade – including how the explosion of regional language channels and an era of multiple screens have changed soap viewing forever. Meticulously researched and persuasively argued, the book traces how prime time soaps in India still grab the maximum eyeballs and remain the biggest earners for TV channels. The book will be of interest to students of anthropology and sociology, media and cultural studies, visual culture studies, gender and family studies, and also Asian studies in general. It is also an important resource for media producers, both in content production and television channels, as well as for the general reader.

Author : Bonnie J. Dow
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252096488

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Watching Women's Liberation, 1970 by Bonnie J. Dow Pdf

In 1970, ABC, CBS, and NBC--the “Big Three” of the pre-cable television era--discovered the feminist movement. From the famed sit-in at Ladies’ Home Journal to multi-part feature stories on the movement's ideas and leaders, nightly news broadcasts covered feminism more than in any year before or since, bringing women's liberation into American homes. In Watching Women's Liberation, 1970: Feminism's Pivotal Year on the Network News, Bonnie J. Dow uses case studies of key media events to delve into the ways national TV news mediated the emergence of feminism's second wave. First legitimized as a big story by print media, the feminist movement gained broadcast attention as the networks’ eagerness to get in on the action was accompanied by feminists’ efforts to use national media for their own purposes. Dow chronicles the conditions that precipitated feminism's new visibility and analyzes the verbal and visual strategies of broadcast news discourses that tried to make sense of the movement. Groundbreaking and packed with detail, Watching Women's Liberation, 1970 shows how feminism went mainstream--and what it gained and lost on the way.

Author : Julie D'Acci
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807860960

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Defining Women by Julie D'Acci Pdf

Defining Women explores the social and cultural construction of gender and the meanings of woman, women, and femininity as they were negotiated in the pioneering television series Cagney and Lacey, starring two women as New York City police detectives. Julie D'Acci illuminates the tensions between the television industry, the series production team, the mainstream and feminist press, various interest groups, and television viewers over competing notions of what women could or could not be--not only on television but in society at large. Cagney and Lacey, which aired from 1981 to 1988, was widely recognized as an innovative treatment of working women and developed a large and loyal following. While researching this book, D'Acci had unprecedented access to the set, to production meetings, and to the complete production files, including correspondence from network executives, publicity firms, and thousands of viewers. She traces the often heated debates surrounding the development of women characters and the representation of feminism on prime-time television, shows how the series was reconfigured as a 'woman's program,' and investigates questions of female spectatorship and feminist readings. Although she focuses on Cagney and Lacey, D'Acci discusses many other examples from the history of American television.

Author : E. Zaslow
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230101531

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Feminism, Inc. by E. Zaslow Pdf

Drawing on extensive research with a diverse group of seventy teen girls, Zaslow offers a critical account of the girl power moment in which feminism and femininity are shrink-wrapped together in one market-friendly package. With a focus on pop-music and television, Zaslow skillfully explores the negotiative processes of teen girls as they make sense of girl power's new cultural narratives of femininity as well as its failure to offer strategies for real social change. Written in highly accessible language, this book charts new territory as it offers a rich account of the ways in which teen girls understand style, sexuality, motherhood, and feminism in girl power media culture, and how their desires, social experiences, and imaginings of the future are shaped in their relationship with a neoliberal girl power discourse.

Author : Karen Boyle
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1412903793

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Media and Violence by Karen Boyle Pdf

Paying equal attention to the production, content and reception involved in any representation of violence, this book offers a framework for understanding how violence is represented and consumed. The discussions are illustrated with topical and well-known examples.

Author : Sujata Moorti,Lisa Cuklanz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786721617

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All-American TV Crime Drama by Sujata Moorti,Lisa Cuklanz Pdf

Law and Order Special Victims Unit (SVU) is more popular than any other American police procedural television series, but how does its unique focus on sex crimes reflect contemporary popular culture and feminist critique, whilst also recasting the classic crime narrative? All-American TV Crime Drama is the first dedicated study of SVU and its treatment of sexual violence, gender and criminality. The book uses detailed textual and visual analyses of episodes to illuminate the assumptions underpinning the programme. Although SVU engages with issues pertaining to feminism and gender it still relies upon traditional and misogynistic tropes such as false rape charges and the monstrous mother to undermine positive views of the feminine. The show, and its backdrop, New York City thus become a stage on which national concerns about women, gender roles, the family and race are carried out. Moorti and Cuklanz unpack how the show has become a crucible for examining current attitudes towards these issues and include an analysis of its reception by its many fans in over 30 countries.

Author : Keira V. Williams
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820365596

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Why Any Woman by Keira V. Williams Pdf

Author : Rebecca Munford,Melanie Waters
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813571829

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Feminism and Popular Culture by Rebecca Munford,Melanie Waters Pdf

When the term “postfeminism” entered the media lexicon in the 1990s, it was often accompanied by breathless headlines about the “death of feminism.” Those reports of feminism’s death may have been greatly exaggerated, and yet contemporary popular culture often conjures up a world in which feminism had never even been born, a fictional universe filled with suburban Stepford wives, maniacal career women, alluring amnesiacs, and other specimens of retro femininity. In Feminism and Popular Culture, Rebecca Munford and Melanie Waters consider why the twenty-first century media landscape is so haunted by the ghosts of these traditional figures that feminism otherwise laid to rest. Why, over fifty years since Betty Friedan’s critique, does the feminine mystique exert such a strong spectral presence, and how has it been reimagined to speak to the concerns of a postfeminist audience? To answer these questions, Munford and Waters draw from a rich array of examples from contemporary film, fiction, music, and television, from the shadowy cityscapes of Homeland to the haunted houses of American Horror Story. Alongside this comprehensive analysis of today’s popular culture, they offer a vivid portrait of feminism’s social and intellectual history, as well as an innovative application of Jacques Derrida’s theories of “hauntology.” Feminism and Popular Culture thus not only considers how contemporary media is being visited by the ghosts of feminism’s past, it raises vital questions about what this means for feminism’s future.