Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader Book

Pt. 1 Programmes and Heroines 21

1 The Search for Tomorrow in Today's Soap Operas: Notes on a feminine narrative form Tania Modleski Modleski, Tania 29

2 Sex and the City and Consumer Culture: Remediating postfeminist drama Jane Arthurs Arthurs, Jane 41

3 Women with a Mission: Lynda La Plante, DCI Jane Tennison and the reconfiguration of TV crime drama Deborah Jermyn Jermyn, Deborah 57

4 Divas, Evil Black Bitches, and Bitter Black Women: African-American women in postfeminist and post-civil rights popular culture Kimberly Springer Springer, Kimberly 72

5 Ellen, Television and the Politics of Gay and Lesbian Visibility Bonnie J. Dow Dow, Bonnie J. 93

6 You'd Better Recognize: Oprah the iconic and television talk Beretta E. Smith-Shomade Smith-Shomade, Beretta E. 111

7 "Take Responsibility for Yourself": Judge Judy and the neoliberal citizen Laurie Ouellette Ouellette, Laurie 139

8 Feeling Like a Domestic Goddess: Postfeminism and cooking Joanne Hollows Hollows, Joanne 154

9 Feminism Without Men: feminist media studies in a post-feminist age Karen Boyle Boyle, Karen 174

10 Girls Rule! Gender, feminism, and Nickelodeon Sarah Banet-Weiser Banet-Weiser, Sarah 191

11 The (In)visible Lesbian: Anxieties of representation in The L Word Susan J. Wolfe Wolfe, Susan J. Lee Ann Roripaugh Roripaugh, Lee Ann 211

Pt. 2 Audiences, Reception Contexts and Spectatorship 219

12 Women's Genres: Melodrama, soap opera, and theory Annette Kuhn Kuhn, Annette 225

13 Melodromatic Identifications: Television fiction and women's fantasy Ien Ang Ang, Ien 235

14 National Texts and Gendered Lives: An ethnography of television viewers in a NorthIndian City Purnima Mankekar Mankekar, Purnima 247

15 Defining Asian Femininity: Chinese viewers of Japanese TV dramas in Singapore Elizabeth MacLachlan MacLachlan, Elizabeth Geok-lian Chua Chua, Geok-lian 273

16 The Globalization of Gender: Ally McBeal in post-socialist Slovenia Ksenija Vidmar-Horvat Vidmar-Horvat, Ksenija 288

17 The Performance and Reception of Televisual "Ugliness" in Yo soy Betty la fea Yeidy M. Rivero Rivero, Yeidy M. 302

18 Sob Stories, Merriment, and Surprises: The 1950s audience participation show on network television and women's daytime reception Marsha F. Cassidy Cassidy, Marsha F. 320

Select Bibliography 341

Index 363