Feminist television criticism: a reader

Abstract

Introduction Introduction to Part One: Programmes and Heroines 1. The Search for Tomorrow in Today's Soap Operas: Notes on a Feminine Narrative Form - Tania Modleski 2. Sex and the and Consumer Culture: Remediating Postfeminist Drama - Jane Arthurs 3. Women with a Mission: Lynda La Plante, DCI Jane Tennison and the Reconfiguration of TV Crime Drama - Deborah Jermyn 4. Divas, Evil Black Bitches, and Bitter Black Women: African-American Women in Postfeminist and Post-Civil Rights Popular Culture - Kimberly Springer 5. Ellen, Television and the Politics of Gay and Lesbian Visibility - Bonnie J. Dow 6. You'd Better Recognize: Oprah the Iconic and Television Talk - Beretta E. Smith-Shomade 7. Take Responsibility for Yourself Judge Judy and the Neoliberal Citizen - Laurie Ouellette 8. Feeling Like a Domestic Goddess: Postfeminism and Cooking - Joanne Hollows 9. Feminism Without Men: Feminist Media Studies in a Post-Feminist Age - Karen Boyle 10. Girls Rule! Gender, Feminism, and Nickelodeon - Sarah Banet-Weiser 11. The (In)visible Lesbian: Anxieties of representation in the L word - Susan J. Wolfe and Lee Ann Roripaugh Introduction to Part Two: Audiences, Reception Contexts, and Spectatorship 12. Women's Genres: Melodrama, Soap Opera, and Theory - Annette Kuhn 13. Melodromatic Identifications: Television Fiction and Women's Fantasy - Ien Ang 14. National Texts and Gendered Lives: An Ethnography of Television Viewers in a North Indian City - Purnima Mankekar 15. Defining Asian Femininity: Chinese Viewers of Japanese TV Dramas in Singapore - Elizabeth MacLachlan and Geok-lian Chua 16. The Globalization of Gender: Ally McBeal in Post-Socialist Slovenia - Ksenija Vidmar-Horvat 17. The Performance and Reception of Televisual 'Ugliness' in Yo soy Betty la Fea - Yeidy M. Rivero 18. Sob Stories, Merriment, and Surprises: The 1950s Audience Participation Show on Network Television and Women's Daytime Reception - Marsha F. Cassidy Bibliography.