| Description |
xi, 226 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Reading contemporary television
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Reading contemporary television.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Rhonda Hammer and Douglas Kellner -- Introduction: ladies love your box: the rhetoric of pleasure and danger in feminist television studies / Merri Lisa Johnson -- Gangster feminism: the feminist cultural work of HBO's The Sopranos / Merri Lisa Johnson -- Female heterosexual sadism: the final feminist taboo in Buffy the vampire slayer and the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series / Carol Siegel -- Primetime harem fantasies: marriage, monogamy, and a bit of feminist fanfiction on ABC's The bachelor / Katherine Frank -- Getting wet: the heteroflexibility of Showtime's The L word / Candace Moore -- Queer as box: boi spectators and boy culture on Showtime's Queer as folk / Bobby Noble -- HBO's Oz and the fight against prisoner rape: chronicles from the front line / Lara Stemple -- "The room" as "heterosexual closet": the life and death of alternative relationships on HBO's Six feet under / Leslie Heywood. |
| Subject |
Women on television.
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Women on television. |
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Man-woman relationships on television.
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Man-woman relationships on television. |
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Sex role on television.
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Sex role on television. |
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Third-wave feminism.
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Third-wave feminism. |
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Third-wave feminism. |
| Added Author |
Johnson, Merri Lisa.
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| ISBN |
1845112466 paperback |
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1845112458 hardback |
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9781845112455 hardback |
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9781845112462 paperback |
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