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Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement Since 1970 (Feminist Cultural Studies, the Media, and Political Culture)
Bonnie J. Dow
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Description for Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement Since 1970 (Feminist Cultural Studies, the Media, and Political Culture)
Paperback. "The author offers surprising connections and comparisons in the book .. and she provides a solid overview of the women's movement in America to the present.. Highly recommended for upper-division and graduate media, cultural, and feminist studies collections."-Choice Series: Feminist Cultural Studies, the Media, & Political Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Dow discusses a wide variety of television programming and provides specific case studies of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, One Day at a Time, Designing Women, Murphy Brown, and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. She juxtaposes analyses of genre, plot, character development, and narrative structure with the larger debates over feminism that took place at the time the programs originally aired. Dow emphasizes the power of the relationships among television entertainment, news media, women's magazines, publicity, and celebrity biographies and interviews in creating a framework through which ... Read more
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Dow discusses a wide variety of television programming and provides specific case studies of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, One Day at a Time, Designing Women, Murphy Brown, and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. She juxtaposes analyses of genre, plot, character development, and narrative structure with the larger debates over feminism that took place at the time the programs originally aired. Dow emphasizes the power of the relationships among television entertainment, news media, women's magazines, publicity, and celebrity biographies and interviews in creating a framework through which ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Series
Feminist Cultural Studies, the Media, & Political Culture
Condition
New
Weight
415g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812215540
SKU
V9780812215540
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About Bonnie J. Dow
Bonnie J. Dow is Assistant Professor of Communication at North Dakota State University.
Reviews for Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement Since 1970 (Feminist Cultural Studies, the Media, and Political Culture)
Dow's critical insights are inventive, ranging wisely across several disciplines, particularly the history of the U.S. women's movement. -Journal of Communication Prime-Time Feminism is an important book for scholars and courses in gender and the media. It is a crucial piece of a picture that has not always been pretty. -Quarterly Journal of Speech The author offers surprising ... Read more