Television for women : new directions /
edited by Rachel Moseley, Helen Wheatley and Helen Wood.
- London Routledge c2017
- xv, 266 pages : illustrations ;P.B. 25 cm
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction: Television for Women - what new directions?
Rachel Moseley, Helen Wheatley, Helen Wood
Part I: Women and Work
Chapter 1: Women’s History, Women’s Work: Popular Television as Feminine Historiography
Moya Luckett
Chapter 2: The Feminization of Contemporary British Television Drama: Sally Wainwright and Red Productions
Ruth McElroy
Chapter 3: "Women pushed their way forward and became quite a force within the BBC": Women’s roles in television production and the production of programmes for women
Vanessa Jackson
Part II: Women and Identity
Chapter 4: Catfight! Camp and Queer Visibility in Orange is the New Black
Dana A. Heller
Chapter 5: Brown Girls Who Don’t Need Saving: Social Media and the Role of ‘Possessive Investment’ in The Mindy Project and The Good Wife
Sujata Moorti
Chapter 6: Watching One Born Every Minute: Negotiating the terms of the ‘good birth’
Sara De Benedictis
Chapter 7: Sex, Class and Consumerism: British Sitcom’s Negotiation of the Single Girl
Vicky Ball
Part III: Formations of Women's Television
Chapter 8: Feminist Television or Television for Women? Revisiting the Launch of Canada’s Women’s Television Network
Sarah A. Matheson
Chapter 9: Tradition and Innovation: Italian Women’s Channels, Factual Entertainment and the Significance of Generation in Women’s Viewing Preferences
Cecilia Penati and Anna Sfardini
Chapter 10: Producing Domestic Abuse in Pakistani Television: Between Commerce, Ratings and Social Responsibility
Munira Cheema
Part IV: Women and the Home
Chapter 11: Television in the Ideal Home
Helen Wheatley
Chapter 12: "I’ve Been Having Fantasies about Regan and Carter Three Times a Week": Television, Women and Desire
Hazel Collie
Chapter 13: Dreaming of the ‘Good Life’: Gender, Mobility and Anxiety in Wanted Down Under
Jilly Boyce Kay and Helen Wood
9781138914292 (pbk. : alk. paper) 3918.50
2016021584
Women on television.
Women's television programs.
Television and women
R 791.4565 TEL
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction: Television for Women - what new directions?
Rachel Moseley, Helen Wheatley, Helen Wood
Part I: Women and Work
Chapter 1: Women’s History, Women’s Work: Popular Television as Feminine Historiography
Moya Luckett
Chapter 2: The Feminization of Contemporary British Television Drama: Sally Wainwright and Red Productions
Ruth McElroy
Chapter 3: "Women pushed their way forward and became quite a force within the BBC": Women’s roles in television production and the production of programmes for women
Vanessa Jackson
Part II: Women and Identity
Chapter 4: Catfight! Camp and Queer Visibility in Orange is the New Black
Dana A. Heller
Chapter 5: Brown Girls Who Don’t Need Saving: Social Media and the Role of ‘Possessive Investment’ in The Mindy Project and The Good Wife
Sujata Moorti
Chapter 6: Watching One Born Every Minute: Negotiating the terms of the ‘good birth’
Sara De Benedictis
Chapter 7: Sex, Class and Consumerism: British Sitcom’s Negotiation of the Single Girl
Vicky Ball
Part III: Formations of Women's Television
Chapter 8: Feminist Television or Television for Women? Revisiting the Launch of Canada’s Women’s Television Network
Sarah A. Matheson
Chapter 9: Tradition and Innovation: Italian Women’s Channels, Factual Entertainment and the Significance of Generation in Women’s Viewing Preferences
Cecilia Penati and Anna Sfardini
Chapter 10: Producing Domestic Abuse in Pakistani Television: Between Commerce, Ratings and Social Responsibility
Munira Cheema
Part IV: Women and the Home
Chapter 11: Television in the Ideal Home
Helen Wheatley
Chapter 12: "I’ve Been Having Fantasies about Regan and Carter Three Times a Week": Television, Women and Desire
Hazel Collie
Chapter 13: Dreaming of the ‘Good Life’: Gender, Mobility and Anxiety in Wanted Down Under
Jilly Boyce Kay and Helen Wood
9781138914292 (pbk. : alk. paper) 3918.50
2016021584
Women on television.
Women's television programs.
Television and women
R 791.4565 TEL