In this witty and provocative collection of essays, feminist media critic Elayne Rapping uncovers a new paradigm of feminism's interface with the media via such pop culture artifacts as soap operas, MTV, Madonna and Amy Fisher. [women][culture]
"Law and Justice as Seen on TV" examines the impact, significance, and social and political problems raised by the enormous onslaught of law-related television programming in the US, both fiction and nonfiction, in the years since the rise of live televised trials as major media events. The book weaves together the various strands-media history ...
A careful analysis of the pervasiveness of 12-step thinking in popular culture and a skeptical deconstruction of the political agenda behind its rhetoric, particularly with regard to rape, anorexia, and other issues attributable to society at large.
The purpose of this book is to help viewers appreciate, from an informed and critical perspective, how TV movies work--for good and ill--and to themselves a active viewers who, in watching a movie of the week, are participating in an important public event that calls upon them to make judgments and perhaps even, as a result of viewing, considering ...
A careful analysis of the pervasiveness of 12-step thinking in popular culture and a skeptical deconstruction of the political agenda behind its rhetoric, particularly with regard to rape, anorexia, and other issues attributable to society at large.
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