Television and Women's Culture: The Politics of the Popular.

Introduction - Mary Ellen Brown Feminist Culturalist Television Criticism Culture, Theory, Practice PART ONE: WOMEN AS AUDIENCES AND CRITICS Women as Audiences - Virginia Nightingale For Television-Centered Television Criticism - Caren Deming Lessons from Feminism Women Audiences and the Workplace - Dorothy Hobson PART TWO: REPRESENTATION AND FANTASY: THE STRUCTURING OF FEMININE READING POSITIONS Melodramatic Identification - Ien Ang Television Fiction and Women's Fantasy Consumer Girl Culture - Lisa Lewis How Music Video Appeals to Girls Rock Video - Sally Stockbridge Pleasure and Resistance PART THREE: WOMEN AND TELEVISION GENRES 'Cagney and Lacey' - Danae Clark Feminine Strategies of Detection Women and Quiz Shows - John Fiske Consumerism, Patriarchy and Resisting Pleasures Male Gazing - Beverly Poynten and John Hartley Australian Rules Football, Gender and Television Class, Gender and the Female Viewer - Andrea Press Women's Responses to 'Dynasty' Motley Moments - Mary Ellen Brown and Linda Barwick Soap Opera, Carnival, Gossip and the Power of the Utterance Conclusion - Mary Ellen Brown Consumption and Resistance - The Problem of Pleasure