| Description |
1 online resource (xliii, 162 pages) |
| Series |
American culture ; v. 5 |
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American culture (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; 5.
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| Contents |
Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 The American Dream Machine: Movies for Large and Small Screens; Chapter 2 Genre, Narrative, and the Public Sphere; Chapter 3 Feminist Theory and the TV Movie: What the Genre Does Best; Chapter 4 TV Movies As Women's Genre; Chapter 5 TV Movies As History: Class, Race, and the Past; Afterword; Bibliography; Index |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-155) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Television and women -- United States
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Television broadcasting of films -- United States
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Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Television and women
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Television broadcasting of films
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Television broadcasting -- Social aspects
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816684113 |
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0816684111 |
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