Movie of the Week : Private Stories Public Events.
Title:
Movie of the Week : Private Stories Public Events.
Author:
Rapping, Elayne.
ISBN:
9780816684113
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (208 pages)
Series:
American Culture
Contents:
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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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