Private Screenings: Television and the Female Consumer (A Camera Obscura Book)

Installing The Television Set : Popular Disclosures On Television And Domestic Space, 1948-1955 / Lynn Spigel -- The Spectacularization Of Everyday Life : Recycling Hollywood Stars And Fans In Early Television Variety Shows / Denise Mann -- The Meaning Of Memory : Family, Class, And Ethnicity In Early Network Television Programs . George Lipsitz -- It This What You Meant By Color Tv? : Race, Gender, And Contested Meanings In Nbc's Julia / Aniko Bodroghkozy -- Defining Women : The Case Of Cagney And Lacey / Julie D'acci -- Kate And Allie : New Women And The Audience's Television Archives / Robert H. Deming -- All's Well That Doesn't End-- : Soap Opera And The Marriage Motif / Sandy Flitterman-lewis -- All That Television Allows : Tv Melodrama, Postmodernism, And Consumer Culture / Lynne Joyrich. Lynn Spigel And Denise Mann, Editors. An Expanded Version Of Issue No. 16, Winter 1988, Of Camera Obscura. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Installing the television set - popular discourses on television and domestic space, 1948-1955, Lynn Spigel the spectacularization of everyday life - recycling Hollywood stars and fans in early television variety shows Denise Mann the meaning of memory - family, class, and ethnicity in early network television programmes, George Lipsitz sit-coms and suburbs - positioning the 1950s homemaker, Mary Beth Haralovich "Is this what you mean by colour TV?" - race, gender, and contested meanings in NBC's, Julia Aniko Bodroghkozy defining women - the case of Cagney and Lacey, Julie D'Acci Kate and Allie -"new" women and the audience's television archives, Robert H. Deming all's well that doesn't end - soap operas and the marriage motif, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis all that television allows - TV melodrama, postmodernism and consumer culture, Lynne Joyrich source guide to TV family comedy, drama and serial drama, 1946-1970, Dan Einstein, Nina Leibman, Randall Vogt, Sarah Berry, Jillian Steinberger, and William Lafferty. 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.