Private Screenings: Television and the Female Consumer

by Lynn Spigel

While much research into television has been historical, textual, or empirical, this volume approaches the topic from a sociocultural and feminist perspective, to address important questions from the viewpoint of the audience as well as from that of the industry. The contributors examine the ways in which the television industry seeks to deliver a female audience to its advertisers while inserting itself into women's lives, both at home and in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816620539
• ISBN13: 9780816620531
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"