The feminist, the housewife, and the soap opera

The feminist, the housewife, and the soap opera / Charlotte Brunsdon.

This book traces the feminist engagement with soap opera using sources from programme publicity to interviews with scholars. It reveals that scholarship on soap opera was a significant site from which the identity feminist intellectual was produced.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brunsdon, Charlotte
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2000.
Series:Oxford television studies.
Subjects:
Television soap operas > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Television soap operas > Social aspects > United States.
Feminist television criticism > Great Britain.
Feminist television criticism > United States.
Television and women.
Feminists > Interviews.
Feminist literary criticism > History.
Television and women
Feminists
Feminist television criticism
Television soap operas > Social aspects
Feminismus
Soapopera
Fernsehkritik
Soapseries.
Feminisme.
Télévision et femmes > Grande-Bretagne.
Télévision et femmes > États-Unis.
Feuilletons télévisés > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Feuilletons télévisés > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire et critique.
Théorie féministe.
Femmes au foyer > Grande-Bretagne.
Great Britain
United States
Interviews
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Table of 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.

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