A diverse collection of essays analyzing the representation of women in the media from various feminist perspectives.
Introduction: Demystufying the Media by Ann C. Hall Manipulating Females: Negative Images of Women in the Media Horror is What a Girl Would Feel: Narrative Erotics in Depression-Era Pulp Fiction by Jean Gregorek Stalking Women's Stockings: Opaque Wisdom or Sheer Nonsense? by Carol E. Dietrich Getting Serious: Women at the Anchor Desk by Julia Keller Causing a Stir: Women's Ways of Subversion Tracking Ida: The Bold, the Brash, and the Secondary in Hollywood Film by Judith Roof The Ideology of Heroism in "My Beautiful Laundrette": The Woman's Alternative by Susan E. Lorsch Resurrecting the "Ghost": Innocence and Recuperation in American Popular Film by Grace A. Epstein Meridel Le Sueur, Reportage and the Cultural Situatedness of Her Rhetoric by James M. Boehnlein Maternity and the Masses: Drama, the Media, and Jane Martin's "Keely and Du" by Ann C. Hall The Backlash Misogyny and Misanthropy: Anita Hill and David Mamet by Katherine H. Burkman Oprah Winfrey's "Scared Silent" and the Spectatorship of Incest by Rosaria Champagne Women Who Have Dared But Deterred Other Women: Hannah More and Beverly LaHaye by Veronica Webb Leahy Elizabeth Tudor and Diana Spencer: Claiming an Image; Reclaiming a Life by Anne Marie Drew Index
ANN C. HALL is Chair of the Division of English at Ohio Dominican College. She has published A Kind of Alaska: Women in the Plays of O'Neill, Pinter, and Shepard (1993), as well as numerous articles on modern drama and literature. In addition to her academic experience, she served as a Dramaturg and Education Director for a theatre company for three years.
?[Hall] offers an eclectic array of studies--including
representations of women in both visual and print fields--and the
strength of her book lies in the creativity and originality of some
of the essays.?-Choice
?This volume succeeds in meeting the goal of any work on
intepreting feminism and the media - by giving the reader fresh
eyes with which to examine representations of women.?-Journalism &
Mass Communication Quarterly
"�Hall� offers an eclectic array of studies--including
representations of women in both visual and print fields--and the
strength of her book lies in the creativity and originality of some
of the essays."-Choice
"[Hall] offers an eclectic array of studies--including
representations of women in both visual and print fields--and the
strength of her book lies in the creativity and originality of some
of the essays."-Choice
"This volume succeeds in meeting the goal of any work on
intepreting feminism and the media - by giving the reader fresh
eyes with which to examine representations of women."-Journalism &
Mass Communication Quarterly
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