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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rapping, Elayne, 1938-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1992.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Television broadcasting > Social aspects.
Television broadcasting of films.
Television and women.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Television > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Television > Films (Émissions) > États-Unis.
Television et femmes > États-Unis.
Television broadcasting > Social aspects > United States.
Television broadcasting of films > United States.
Television and women > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (208 pages).
ISBN:9780816684113

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