Private Screenings - Television and the Female Consumer (Paperback, New)

While much research into television has been historical, textual, or empirical, this volume approaches the topic from a sociocultural and feminist perspective, to address important questions from the viewpoint of the audience as well as from that of the industry. The contributors examine the ways in which the television industry seeks to deliver a female audience to its advertisers while inserting itself into women's lives, both at home and in the marketplace - hence the concept of a private screening in which the outside media world is brought into the personal space. The volume analyzes how television delivers "consumption" to its female audience by displaying commodities and lifestyles that attempt to engender an idealized sense of community and how audiences understand television programming and how these programs construct definitions of "femininity".

General

Imprint:	University of Minnesota Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 1992
First published:	April 1992
Authors:	Lynn Spigel
Contributors:	Denise Mann
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	312
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8166-2053-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Television Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8166-2053-9
Barcode:	9780816620531

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