ABSTRACT

Charlotte Brundson's key writings on film and television are bought together with new introductions which contextualise and update the arguments. The focus is on the tastes and pleasures of the female consumer as she is produced by popular film and television.

chapter |6 pages

General introduction

part |2 pages

Part I The defence of soap opera

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|6 pages

Crossroads: notes on soap opera

chapter 2|8 pages

Writing about soap opera

chapter 3|4 pages

Feminism and soap opera

part |2 pages

Part II Career girls

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

chapter 5|12 pages

A subject for the seventies

chapter 6|14 pages

Men’s genres for women

chapter 7|22 pages

Post-feminism and shopping films

part |2 pages

Part III Questions of quality

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter 8|12 pages

Aesthetics and audiences

chapter 9|24 pages

Problems with quality

chapter 10|18 pages

Satellite dishes and the landscapes of taste

part |2 pages

Part IV Feminist identities

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter 11|18 pages

Pedagogies of the feminine

chapter 12|10 pages

Identity in feminist television criticism