Third wave feminism and television : Jane puts it in a box / edited by Merri Lisa Johnson.

Other author Johnson, Merri Lisa.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Descriptionxi, 226 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesReading contemporary television
Reading contemporary television. ^A717775
Contents Foreword / Rhonda Hammer and Douglas Kellner -- Introduction: ladies love your box: the rhetoric of pleasure and danger in feminist television studies / Merri Lisa Johnson -- Gangster feminism: the feminist cultural work of HBO's The Sopranos / Merri Lisa Johnson -- Female heterosexual sadism: the final feminist taboo in Buffy the vampire slayer and the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series / Carol Siegel -- Primetime harem fantasies: marriage, monogamy, and a bit of feminist fanfiction on ABC's The bachelor / Katherine Frank -- Getting wet: the heteroflexibility of Showtime's The L word / Candace Moore -- Queer as box: boi spectators and boy culture on Showtime's Queer as folk / Bobby Noble -- HBO's Oz and the fight against prisoner rape: chronicles from the front line / Lara Stemple -- "The room" as "heterosexual closet": the life and death of alternative relationships on HBO's Six feet under / Leslie Heywood.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN1845112458 (hbk.)
ISBN9781845112455 (hbk.)
ISBN1845112466 (pbk.)
ISBN9781845112462 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks PN1992.8.W65 T45 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold