Screen Tastes

Soap Opera to Satellite Dishes

Charlotte Brunsdon

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Routledge
10 July 1997

Film theory & criticism; Television; Gender studies: women; Cinema industry; Radio & television industry

In Screen Tastes , Charlotte Brunsdon analyses a wide range of contemporary film and television programmes,

from British soap operas and crime series to Hollywood movies such as Working Girl and Pretty Woman . As well as interpreting the pleasures and meanings that these texts offer - particularly for women viewers - the book is concerned with the nature of media criticism, particularly feminist criticism, and the problematic aesthetics of popular culture. Why have feminist media critics been so interested in the soap opera viewer? What are the 'race' politics of the TV crime series? What is meant by 'quality' in television? And was the fuss about the erection of satellite dishes on British homes really about architectural values? Screen Tastes brings together Charlotte Brunsdon's key writings on film and television

and its criticism, with new introductions which contextualise and update the arguments, and new work on the 'post-feminist girly' in recent Hollywood cinema. Brunsdon's focus is on the tastes and pleasures of the female consumer as she is produced by popular film and television - and by feminist criticism.

By: Charlotte Brunsdon
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 612g
ISBN: 9780415121545
ISBN 10: 041512154X
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 10 July 1997
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

General introduction Part I The defence of soap opera 1 Crossroads: notes on soap opera 2 Writing about soap opera 3 Feminism and soap opera 4 The role of soap opera in the development of feminist television criticism Part II Career girls 5 A subject for the seventies 6 Men’s genres for women 7 Post-feminism and shopping films Part III Questions of quality 8 Aesthetics and audiences 9 Problems with quality 10 Satellite dishes and the landscapes of taste Part IV Feminist identities 11 Pedagogies of the feminine 12 Identity in feminist television criticism

Charlotte Brunsdon teaches in the Department of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. She edited the collection Films for Women (1986) and is the co-editor, with Julie D’Acci and Lynn Spigel, of Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader (1997).