Re-Viewing Reception: Television, Gender, and Postmodern Culture - Couverture souple

Joyrich, Lynne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 025321078X ISBN 13 : 9780253210784

Editeur : Indiana University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Focusing on U.S. television of the 1980s - from "Miami Vice", "Moonlighting", and "Pee-wee's Playhouse" to "Max Headroom" - Lynne Joyrich explores how gender affects the reception of television. She traces how the medium has been characterized as 'feminine' and then turns to the television shows themselves. She analyzes a range of genres and forms: melodramas (historically associated with women); action and crime dramas (aimed at men); dramas that try to distinguish themselves as 'quality' television; programs that emphasize the traditional family, while redefining that family to incorporate disruptions of race, class, and gender; and, programs that self-consciously announce television's 'difference' through strategies that call attention to the medium itself or its institutions. Drawing on feminist, psychoanalytic, and postmodern theory, Joyrich provides a comprehensive analysis of television and television studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Indiana University Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 025321078X
• ISBN 13: 9780253210784
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible