From Happy Homemaker to Desperate Housewives - Motherhood and Popular Television

Informationen zum Autor Rebecca Feasey is Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Communications at Bath Spa University, UK. Klappentext 'Motherhood and Popular Television' is designed to introduce readers to key debates concerning the representations of motherhood and the maternal role in contemporary television programming. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Theorising Motherhood on the Small Screen; 2. Soap Opera: Challenging the ‘Good’ Mother Stereotype; 3. Situation Comedy: the (Un)Funny Mummy Wars; 4. Teen Drama: Absent, Inept and Intoxicated Mothers; 5. Dramedy: Struggling, Sexual and Sisterly Single Mothers; 6. Reality Parenting Programming: Fragile, Failing and Ineffectual Mothers; 7. Celebrity Reality Television: Maintaining the ‘Yummy Mummy’ Profile; 8. Factual Television: Pregnancy, Delivery and the New Mother; 9. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Feasey, Feasey Rebecca
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2012
• EAN: 9780857285614
• ISBN: 978-0-85728-561-4
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Anthem Global Media and Communication Studies; Anthem Studies in Popular Culture; Anthem Film and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism, Gender studies: women and girls, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society