Format:
Online-Ressource (xliii, 162 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0816620172
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0816620180
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9780816620180
Series Statement:
American culture v. 5
Content:
Here's a sophisticated, against-the-grain study of the politics of popular TV by Elayne Rapping. The essays in this work focus on a particular genre: the made-for-TV movie, which is usually dismissed as schmaltzy, low-brow, vacuous, apolitical fare by contemptuous critics. But Rapping takes on this prevailing elitist attitude; she defends many of these movies for being public events that wrestle with urgent social issues, and she argues that they often carry progressive, even subversive, messages, albeit in a contradictory way
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-155) and index
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Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 The American Dream Machine: Movies for Large and Small Screens; Chapter 2 Genre, Narrative, and the Public Sphere; Chapter 3 Feminist Theory and the TV Movie: What the Genre Does Best; Chapter 4 TV Movies As Women's Genre; Chapter 5 TV Movies As History: Class, Race, and the Past; Afterword; Bibliography; Index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816620173
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Movie of the Week : Private Stories Public Events
Language:
English
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