| Fans, Feminisms and 'Quality' Media Contributor(s): Thomas, Lyn (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415261821 ISBN-13: 9780415261821 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $31.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2002 Annotation: "Fans, Feminisms and 'Quality' Media" considers how popular and long-running radio and TV programs participate in ideologies of national unity and coherence. Through in-depth research and interviews with listeners and viewers, Lyn Thomas explores the tensions between "fandom" and "quality" in media discourse, showing how popular radio and television series become part of their audience's own personal stories and identities. Examining the connections between these programs and heritage film, she reveals how both programs reflect, in different ways, tensions in postcolonial British culture, and explores issues of gender representation, ethnicity, and sexuality. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 791.457 |
| LCCN: 2002024897 |
| Series: Media, Education and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6.1" W x 9.16" (0.78 lbs) 230 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fans, Feminisms and 'Quality' Media considers how long-running and popular radio and TV programmes such as Inspector Morse and The Archers participate in contemporary debates about ethnicity and national identity, gender and feminisms, and tradition and modernity. Examining the connections between these programmes and heritage film, Lyn Thomas reveals how both programmes, in different ways, reflect tensions in postcolonial British culture and contribute to definitions of 'quality' in the media. Through in-depth research and interviews with listeners and viewers, she investigates the social construction of identities (particularly feminist identities) in talk about media texts, showing how popular radio and TV series become part of their audience's own personal narratives. |