Mothers On American Television
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Author | : Kim Akass |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2023-09-26 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1526169398 |
Mothers on American television takes an in-depth look at how motherhood is represented on some of the most popular television series produced this century. Adopting a feminist, Marxist, cultural studies and psychoanalytical approach, the book offers a history of the positioning of mothers within American society. It provides detailed analysis of The Sopranos, Sex and the City, The Handmaid’s Tale and more, while reflecting on the newspaper ‘mommy wars’, employment patterns and alternative views of motherhood.
Author | : Denise Lowe |
Publisher | : ABC-CLIO |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
"Although limited in focus to the role of women in and on television, this work is notable for unearthing the more obscure personalities and programs not covered by other television encyclopedias. Includes bibliography, several appendixes, and a subject index."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Kim Akass |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Feminism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrea L. Press |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1991-03 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780812212860 |
Women's inclinations to identify with television characters varies with their assessment of the realism of these characters and their social world.
Author | : Melissa Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 73 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Mothers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Dickerson |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2015-08-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1501130676 |
The author examines his stormy relationship with his mother, describing her role as a pioneering woman journalist, the lavish political soirees that marked his parents' marriage, and his feelings about his mother's perpetual absence throughout his youth.
Author | : Elizabeth Nathanson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0415811392 |
In this book, Nathanson examines how contemporary American television and associated digital media depict women’s everyday lives as homemakers, career women, and mothers. Her focus on American popular culture from the 1990s through the present reveals two extremes: narratives about women who cannot keep house and narratives about women who only keep house. Nathanson looks specifically at the issue of time in this context and argues that the media constructs panics about domestic time scarcity while at the same time offering solutions for those very panics. Analyzing TV programs such as How Clean is Your House, Up All Night, and Supernanny, she finds that media’s portrayals of women’s time is crucial to understanding definitions of femininity, women’s labor, and leisure in the postfeminist context.
Author | : Kristi Rowan Humphreys |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2015-10-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0739192531 |
Housework and Gender in American Television: Coming Clean examines representations of housework and their relationships with gender in sixty of the most popular television shows of the 1950s through the 1980s, searching for trends, similarities, inconsistencies, and meaning. Much of the critical scholarship addressing mid-century televised housework claims that domestic activities marginalize female characters, removing them from scenes involving important familial discussions and placing them in devalued positions. This book challenges the notion that housework functions primarily as a mechanism through which female characters are marginalized, devalued, invisible, or passive, and instead proposes a different reading of housework in television, one that brings to the fore the loving, sacrificial, and active qualities so crucial and foundational to housework activity in both representation and reality. These qualities, in turn, attach a strength to female characters, and male characters when applicable, that is often ignored in standard feminist analyses of television. This study reveals roughly twenty trends established in four decades of televised housework, from the housewives of the fifties, to the witches and genies of the sixties, to the elimination of male domestic labor in the seventies, to the dominance of male housekeepers in the eighties.
Author | : Judy Kutulas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781666934649 |
This work considers the evolution of American notions of motherhood through sitcoms, examining depictions of "good" and "bad" mothers alongside the ways these depictions have diversified over time.
Author | : Donna L. Halper |
Publisher | : M.E. Sharpe |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2014-02-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0765636719 |
With an emphasis on social history, the author skillfully explains how the changing role of women in different eras influenced their participation in broadcasting. The second edition is expanded to include the social and political changes that occurred in the 2000s, such as the growing number of women talk show hosts; changing attitudes about women in leadership roles in business; more about minority women in media; and women in sports and women sports announcers. The author addresses the question of whether women are in fact no longer invisible in electronic media. She provides an assessment of where progress for women (in society as well as broadcasting) can be seen, and where progress appears totally stalled.