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Private screenings : television and the female consumer /

Analyzes how television delivers definitions of ""femininity"" to its female audiences. Includes a source guide for television shows from 1946-1970. Contributors: Julie D'Acci, Sarah Berry, Aniko Bodroghkozy, Robert H. Deming, Dan Einstein, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, Mary Beth...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Spigel, Lynn, Mann, Denise
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1992.
Series:Camera obscura book.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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 1950s 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.