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Call No: 451-02 BOX
Author: Baehr, Helen; Dyer, Gillian
Place: New York
Publisher: Pandora
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: xi, 233 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Series: Pandora Press popular culture
Subject: WOMEN ON TV
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index
ISBN: 0863582168 (pbk.); 0863581129 (hard)
LON: 87009113; 5304588

Call No: 632.53 FEM
Author: Pribram, E. Deidre
Place: London New York
Publisher: Verso
PubDate: 1988
PhysDes: vii, 199 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Questions for feminism
Subject: FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; SPECTATORSHIP; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; MUSIC TELEVISION; DIRECTORS; WOMEN ON TV; FEMINISM AND TV; BODY ON TV; MILDRED PIERCE (US, Michael Curtis, 1945); REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954); COLOR PURPLE, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1985)
Notes: Bibliography: p. 196-197
ISBN: 0860912043; 0860919226 (pbk.)
LON: 5927013

Call No: 412-053.2 PAL
Author: Palmer, Patricia
CorpAuthor: New South Wales. Ministry of Education. Social Policy Unit
Place: Sydney
Publisher: Social Policy Unit, Ministry of Education
PubDate: 1986
PhysDes: 71 p. ; 30 cm
Subject: YOUNG PEOPLE AND TV. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN ON TV; EDUCATION, USE OF TV IN. AUSTRALIA
Notes: Bibliography: p. 68-71
ISBN: 0730515605 : gratis
LON: 4794297

Author: Waddell, Terrie
PhysDes: Article; Bibliography; Illustration(s)
Subject: WOMEN ON TV; ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS [TV] (UK, 1992 - 1996)
Summary: The article explores the themes of transgression, carnivalesque spectacle, the grotesque and dionysos, in relation to the television series 'Absolutely Fabulous'.

Call No: 632.46 MEL
Author: Mellencamp, Patricia
Place: Bloomington
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: 1992
PhysDes: xvi, 414 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Series: Arts and politics of the everyday
Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND TV; IMPERIALISM AND TV; COMMERCIALS, TV; GOVERNMENT CONTROL. USA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND TV; DISASTERS ON TV; LAWSUITS; NARRATIVE IN TV; SEX AND TV; SITUATION COMEDY; GULF WAR ON TV; WOMEN ON TV; TALK SHOWS. USA; RIVERA, GERALDO; DURAS, MARGUERITE; BALL, LUCILLE; BENSON, SUSAN PORTER; RIVERS, JOAN; ARNOLD, ROSEANNE; BURNS, GEORGE; DONAHUE, PHIL; FAGIN, STEVE; WAGNER, JANE; EVIL ANGELS (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1988); GEORGE BURNS AND GRACIE ALLEN SHOW, THE [TV] (US, 1950-1958?); ETERNAL FRAME [MM] (US, 1975?); OPRAH WINFREY SHOW, THE [TV] (US, 1986- ); ROSEANNE [TV] (US, 1988- ); TWIN PEAKS [TV] (US, David Lynch & others, 1990-1991); YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, THE [TV] (US, 1973- ); MURDER, SHE WROTE [TV] (US, 1984- ); MAJOR DAD [TV] (US, 1989- ); I LOVE LUCY [TV] (US, 1951-57); CURRENT AFFAIR, A [TV] (US, 1986- )
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-408) and index
ISBN: 0253207355 (pbk.); 0253337445 (alk. paper)
LON: 8666545

Author: Honisett, Georgie
PhysDes: Article; Illustration(s)
Subject: WOMEN ON TV; ANIMATION; SIMPSONS, THE [TV] (US, 1989-); KING OF THE HILL [TV] (US, 1997-)
Summary: Honisett argues that animation produces strong female role models because viewers judge their characters rather than their appearance.

Call No: 409.1(73) FIS
Author: Fiske, John
Place: Minneapolis, Minn.
Publisher: University of Minneota Press
PubDate: 1994
PhysDes: xxviii, 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: MEDIA; RACIAL ISSUES AND TV; POLITICS AND TV; FAMILY ON TV; ETHNIC GROUPS ON TV; WOMEN ON TV; TRIALS ON TV; KING, RODNEY; SIMPSON, O.J.; MURPHY BROWN [TV] (US, 1988-); COSBY SHOW, THE [TV] (US, 1984-92)
Summary: Detailing the eroding line between "real" and "media" events, Fiske explores the media's treatment of the O. J. Simpson arrest and pretrial hearings, the L.A. uprisings, the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings, and the "family values" debate between Dan Quayle and Murphy Brown. He illustrates how African Americans, Korean Americans, Latinos, and women have succeeded in making their hitherto unheard voices heard and have influenced the nation's reaction to media events such as these. Fiske also analyzes speeches by George Bush, Dan Quayle, and Pat Buchanan, along with media commentary by Rush Limbaugh and CNN's Greg LaMotte, to reveal what Americans successfully rejected in ushering out the Reagan era. Through his analysis of the contradictory and diverse voices that make up U.S. culture, Fiske traces the nation's swing away from Reaganism and offers urgent warnings for the future
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-273) and index
ISBN: 0816624623 (acid-free paper)
LON: 10867683

Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE
Author: Verghis, Sharon
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: WOMEN ON TV. AUSTRALIA; FRANCIS, JEANNETTE; TAGUCHI, KUMI; SAMPSON, YVONNE
Summary: Profile on three Australian female TV show presenters

Author: Milligan, Louise
PhysDes: Article; Bibliography; Illustration(s)
Subject: WOMEN ON TV. AUSTRALIA; NEWS PRESENTERS. AUSTRALIA; POLITICAL PERSONALITIES ON TV. AUSTRALIA
Summary: Milligan argues that the masculine culture of the newsroom produces distorted representation of females. Female newsreaders are youthful and attractive while female politicians are ridiculed, and their appearance given more attention than their policies.

Call No: 626:396SMA
Author: Duncan, Stephen R.; Meade, Melissa; Chinen Biesen, Sheri; Levitt, Linda; Whitney, Allison; Feroli, Mikaela; Reese, De Anna J.; Tally, Margaret; Campbell, Raewyn; Stone, Amanda; Berstein, Rachel S.
Source: US
Place: Lanham
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
PubDate: c2014
PhysDes: 245 pages ; 23 cm
Series: Film and History
Subject: WOMEN IN FILMS; WOMEN ON TV; FEMININITY IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; HOLLIDAY, JUDY; CONTACT (AT, Bentley Dean & Martin Butler, 2009); MAD MEN [TV] (US, 2007); GREY'S ANATOMY [TV] (US, 2005-); GIRLS [TV] (US, 2012); SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959); BORN YESTERDAY (US, George Cukor, 1950); BIG BANG THEORY, THE [TV] (US, 2007-); ELEMENTARY [TV] (US, 2012-)
Summary: While women have long been featured in leading roles in film and television, the intellectual depictions of female characters in these mediums are out of line with reality. Women continue to be marginalized for their choices, overshadowed by men, and judged by their bodies. In fact, the intelligence of women is rarely the focus of television or film narratives, and on the rare occasion when smart women are showcased, their portrayals are undermined by socially awkward behavior or their intimate relationships are doomed to perpetual failure. While Hollywood claims to offer a different, more evolved look at women, these movies and shows often just repackage old character types that still downplay the intelligence and savvy of women. In Smart Chicks on Screen: Representing Women’s Intellect in Film and Television, Laura Mattoon D’Amore brings together an impressive array of scholarship that interrogates the portrayal of females on television and in movies. Among the questions that the volume seeks to answer are: In what ways are women in film and television limited, or ostracized, by their intelligence? How do female roles reinforce standards of beauty, submissiveness, and silence over intellect, problem solving, and leadership? Are there women in film and television who are intelligent without also being objectified? The thirteen essays by international, interdisciplinary scholars offer a wide range of perspectives, examining the connections—and disconnections—between beauty and brains in film and television. Smart Chicks on Screen will be of interest to scholars not only of film and television but of women’s studies, reception studies, and cultural history, as well. -- [Extract taken from the back of book]
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781442237476
Contents: 1.Not Just Born Yesterday: Judy Holliday, the Red Scare, and the (Miss-)Uses of Hollywood's Dumb Blonde Image / Stephen R. Duncan -- 2.The Fuzzy End of the Lollypop: Protofeminism and Collective Subjectivity in Some Like It Hot / Melissa Meade -- 3.Brainy Broads: Images of Women's Intellect in Film Noir / Sheri Chinen Biesen -- 4.Troubling Binaries: Women Scientists in 1950s B-Movies / Linda Levitt -- 5."The High Priestess of the Desert": Female Intellect and Subjectivity in Contact / Allison Whitney -- 6.Mad Men's Peggy Olson: A Prefeminist Champion in a Postfeminist TV Landscape / Stefania Marghitu -- 7.A Deeper Cut: Enlightened Sexism and Grey's Anatomy / Mikaela Feroli -- 8."There Is No Genius": Dr. Joan Watson and the Rewriting of Gender and Intelligence on CBS's Elementary / Natasha Patterson -- 9.Stories Worth Telling: How Kerry Washington Balances Brains, Beauty, and Power in Hollywood / De Anna J. Reese -- 10. Postfeminism, Sexuality, and the Question of Millennial Identity on HBO's Girls / Margaret J. Tally -- 11. I Can't Believe I Fell for Muppet Man!: Female Nerds and the Order of Discourse / Raewyn Campbell -- 12.Brains, Beauty, and Feminist Television: The Women of The Big Bang Theory / Amanda Stone -- 13.Too Smart for Their Own Good?: Images of Young Jewish Women in Television and Film / Rachel S. Bernstein

Call No: 737.1-02 TAS
Author: Tasker, Yvonee
Source: US
Place: Durham, NC
Publisher: Duke University Press
PubDate: 2011
PhysDes: xiv, 313 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: ARMED FORCES IN FILMS; WAR FILMS; WAR IN FILMS; WAR ON TV; WOMEN IN FILMS; WOMEN ON TV
Summary: 'Various films and television shows have grappled with the notion that military women are contradictory figures, unable to be both effective soldiers and appropriately feminine. This book traces this perceived paradox across genres including musicals, screwball comedies, and action thrillers and takes into account the changes of the representation of female soldiers from the 1940s into the 21st century. The author relates femail solders' provocative presence to contemporaneous political and cultural debates and to the ways that women's labor and bodies are understood and values' - TAKEN AND EDITED FROM BACK COVER
ISBN: 9780822348474
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2013
Contents: Auxiliary military women -- Invisible soldiers : representing military nursing -- Musical military women -- Women on top : comedy, hierarchy, and the military woman -- Military women and service comedy : M*A*S*H and Private Benjamin -- Controversy, celebration, and scandal : military women in the news media -- Conflict over combat : training and testing military women -- Scandalous stories : military women as victims, avengers, and investigators

Call No: 721.02 (94) CHA
Author: Chapman, Jan
Edition: 1st ed.
Source: Australia
Place: Australia
Publisher: Screen sound Australia
PubDate: 2002
PhysDes: 1 v ; 20.5 cm, b&w ill.
Series: Longford Lyell lecture 2002, ScreenSound Australia Monograph no.3
Subject: WOMEN AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN FILM WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN FILMMAKERS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN IN FILMS; WOMEN ON TV. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN, FILMS FOR; WOMEN, FILMS MADE BY; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND TV; CHAPMAN, JAN; ARMSTRONG, GILLIAN; CAMPION, JANE; LYELL, LOTTIE; BARRETT, SHIRLEY; MILLIKEN, SUE; Lovell, Patricia; ROBB, JILL; SCOTT, JANE; LONG, JOAN; FINK, MARGARET; DAVIS, JUDY; LEVY, SANDRA; GRIFFITHS, RACHEL; BLANCHETT, CATE; KIDMAN, NICOLE; COLLETTE, TONI; SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1919); WOMAN SUFFERS, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1918); ON OUR SELECTION (AT, Raymond Longford, 1920); SHOWTIME (AT, Jan Chapman, 1978); SWEET AND SOUR [TV] (AT, 1984); SINGER AND THE DANCER, THE (AT, Gillian Amrstrong, 1977); SMOKES AND LOLLIES (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1976); BINGO BRIDESMAIDS AND BRACES (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1988); MORE SMOKES, LESS LOLLIES (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1981); MY BRILLIANT CAREER (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1979); ANGEL AT MY TABLE, AN (NZ, Jane Campion, 1990); PORTRAIT OF A LADY, THE (UK/US, Jane Campion, 1996); WELL, THE (AT, Samantha Lang, 1997); LAST DAYS OF CHEZ NOUS, THE (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1992); TWO FRIENDS [TV] (AT, Jane Campion, 1986); LITTLE WOMEN (US, Gillian Armstrong, 1994); OSCAR AND LUCINDA (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1997); CHARLOTTE GRAY (GG/UK/AT, Gillian Armstrong, 2001); PIANO, THE (AT, Jane Campion, 1993); GIRL'S OWN STORY, A (AT, Jane Campion, 1983)
Summary: The ScreenSound Australia Annual Longford Lyell Lecture was established in 2001. It is named in honour of two significant pioneers of Australian cinema, Lottie Lyell and Raymond Longford, who were the foremost creative partnership in the pioneering years of Australian cinema. Jan Chapman is one of Australia’s most famous producers having been involved in the production of ‘Come in Spinner’, ‘Sweet and Sour’, ‘the Piano’ and ‘Lantana’ to name but a few. Chapman talks about the development of her career in relation to other Australian women involved in filmmaking such as Gillian Armstrong and New Zealand born Jane Campion
ISBN: 0642365172

Call No: 451-01/02 DUR
Author: Durkin, Kevin
Place: Milton Keynes Philadelphia
Publisher: Open University Press
PubDate: 1985
PhysDes: xi, 148 p. ; 22 cm
Subject: MEN ON TV; WOMEN ON TV; CHILDREN, EFFECTS OF TV ON
Notes: Cover title: Television, sex roles & children; Includes indexes; Bibliography: p. 131-139
ISBN: 0335150691; 0335150683 (pbk.)
LON: 85013629; 3949331

Call No: 734 TUR
Author: Turnbull, Sue
Source: UK
Place: [Edinburgh]
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
PubDate: c2014
PhysDes: vii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Series: TV genres
Subject: ADAPTATIONS. DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; CRIME DRAMAS; CRIME DRAMAS. AUSTRALIA; CRIME ON TV; CRITICISM, TV.; DETECTIVES ON TV; POLICE ON TV; PROGRAMME GENRES; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF TV; RATINGS. USA; TELEVISION; TELEVISION. UK; TELEVISION. USA; WOMEN ON TV; CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION [TV] (US/CA, 2000-); DRAGNET [TV] (US, 1951-59, 1967-70); HILL STREET BLUES [TV] (US, 1980-87); LAW AND ORDER [TV] (US, 1990-); POLICE STORY: COP KILLER [TV] (US, Larry Shaw, 1988); SOPRANOS, THE [TV] (US, 1999-)
Summary: "What are the characteristic features of the crime drama as a television genre? What is the relationship between crime in the real world and the representation of crime on television? What are the merits of TV crime drama as a genre? The TV Crime Drama offers a genealogical account of the television crime drama, from its origins in popular culture of the 19th and 20th century to its most recent manifestations, as a genre enjoying transnational circulation and popularity. Exploring the key features of this genre in terms of format and style, it pays particular attention to the role of the investigators, the police, the private investigators and the specialists in forensic science and psychology, as well as the debates which have circulated about the role and representation of women. Covering classic series such as The Sweeney and Dragnet as well as contemporary crime dramas including The Wire, The Killing and Luther, this book is an essential read for students and scholars in television studies." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index
ISBN: 9780748640874

Call No: 79DAL ANG
Author: Ang, Ien
Source: NE
Place: London
Publisher: Methuen
PubDate: c1985
PhysDes: viii, 148 p. ; 20 cm
Subject: SOAP OPERAS; SOAP OPERAS. USA; PROGRAMME GENRES; WOMEN ON TV; DALLAS [TV] (US, 1978-91)
Summary: "For the world's television viewing public the beginning of the 1980s was marked by a new and spectacular phenomenon, Dallas. This American dramatic serial about a rich Texan oil family has achieved extraordinary popularity; no other TV serial has ever attained such high worldwide viewing figures. But what is it about Dallas that makes it so successful as entertainment? What is its particular fascination? Why does it appeal to women more than to men? How do viewers from a non-American culture deal with the appearance on their screens of this privileged other culture? These questions form the starting point for an investigation of viewer's reactions to Dallas. The study is based on letters received by the author in response to an advertisement placed in a popular magazine. Readers were asked to write and tell her why they liked or disliked the programme, and their responses are used as evidenece to illustrate and explain the conclusions she draws about the popularity of Dallas. What emerges from an analysis of the letters is the construction in Dallas of a 'tragic structure of feeling' which seems to be responsible for the viewers' experience of an emotional realism in the drama. The relationship between soap opera, fantasy and the place of women in contemporary culture is also investigated in the light of the viewers' reactions. Clearly presented and lively in style, the book introduces the reader to insights from recent film and television studies, and draws on theories of culture and ideology in a concrete and accessible way. " -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Translation of: Het geval Dallas; Includes index; Bibliography: p. [137]-144
ISBN: 0416416403
Contents: -- preface -- introduction -- 1: Dallas between reality and fiction -- 2: Dallas and the melodramatic imagination -- 3: Dallas and the ideology of mass culture -- 4: Dallas and feminism -- notes -- index --

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; WOMEN TV WORKERS. AUSTRALIA
Author: Spicer, Tracey
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: WOMEN TV WORKERS. AUSTRALIA; WOMEN ON TV. AUSTRALIA
Summary: General overview about women and tv and media in Australia and the world

Call No: 744-02(73) HAV
Author: Havas, Julia
Edition: 2022
Place: Detroit
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
PubDate: 2022
PhysDes: viii, 272 pages : illustrated
Subject: FEMINISM AND TV; GOOD WIFE, THE [TV] (US, 2009); GENDER AND TV; PARKS AND RECREATION [TV] (US, 2009-15); SEX AND THE CITY [TV] (US, 1998-2004); WOMEN ON TV. USA; [THIRTY] 30 ROCK [TV] (US, 2006-2013)
Summary: While American television has long relied on a strategic foregrounding of feminist politics to promote certain programming’s cultural value, Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television is the first sustained critical analysis of the twenty-first-century resurgence of this tradition. In Woman Up, Julia Havas’scentral argument is that postmillennial "feminist quality television" springs from a rhetorical subversion of the (much-debated) masculine-coded "quality television" culture on the one hand and the dominance of postfeminist popular culture on the other. Postmillennial quality television culture promotes the idea of aesthetic-generic hierarchies among different types of scripted programming. Its development has facilitated evaluative academic analyses of television texts based on aesthetic merit, producing a corpus of scholarship devoted to pinpointing where value resides in shows considered worthy of discussion. Other strands of television scholarship have criticized this approach for sidestepping the gendered and classed processes of canonization informing the phenomenon. Woman Up intervenes in this debate by reevaluating such approaches and insisting that rather than further fostering or critiquing already prominent processes of canonization, there is a need to interrogate the cultural forces underlying them. Via detailed analyses of four TV programs emerging in the early period of the "feminist quality TV" trend—30 Rock (2006–13), Parks and Recreation (2009–15), The Good Wife (2009–16), and Orange Is the New Black (2013–19)—Woman Up demonstrates that such series mediate their cultural significance by combining formal aesthetic exceptionalism and a politicized rhetoric around a "problematic" postfeminism, thus linking ideals of political and aesthetic value. Woman Up will most appeal to students and scholars of cinema and media studies, feminist media studies, television studies, and cultural studies. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9780814346563

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: WOMEN ON TV
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Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: WOMEN ON TV. AUSTRALIA

Author: Joyce, Robin
PhysDes: Article; Bibliography; Illustration(s)
Subject: WOMEN ON TV; SOAP OPERAS; FEMINISM AND TV
Summary: Joyce examines various soap operas and concludes that they can provide a strong source of women's culture on television.