Screen Tastes: From Soap Opera to Satellite Dishes Book

Why are feminist media critics so interested in the soap opera viewer? What are the race politics of the crime series? What is meant by "quality" in television? In Screen Tastes, Charlotte Brunsdon analyzes a range of contemporary film and television programs, from British soaps and crime series to Hollywood movies such as Working Girl and Pretty Woman. As well as interpreting the pleasures and meanings that these texts offer--particularly for women viewers--she is concerned with media criticism, particularly feminist criticism, and the problematic aesthetics of popular culture. Screen Tastes collects Brunsdon's key writings on film and television and its criticism, and new work on the "post-feminist girly" in recent Hollywood cinema. Brunsdon's focus is on the tastes and pleasures of the female consumer as produced by popular film and television--and by feminist criticism.Read More