Gender and Early Television: Mapping Women's Role in Emerging Us and British Media, 1850-1950

ISBN-13: 9781780769769 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 304 str.

Sarah Arnold

Opis

The way we watch television is changing. While consumption of traditional broadcast television is going down, consumption of non-traditional platform television--including subscription viewing, box-set series and online streaming--is going up. This is the first study to consider the ways in which recent technologies of television can be understood in terms of the gendering of audiences. Taking a viewer-based approach, Sarah Arnold shows how old claims that television is a female medium are now being called into question, due to changes in the spatial practices of viewing and developments in content. Though film has commonly been characterised as 'masculine' and television 'feminine', this paradigm is now being complicated and challenged. This timely book offers important critical insight into current intersections between gender, television consumption and technology.

Recenzje

Gender and Early Television makes an important contribution to our understanding of women's relationship to this new medium in its formative years. ... this is a highly engaging and insightful read that throws much needed new light on an under-researched topic. Critical Studies in Television

Spis treści

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Series Editors' ForewordIntroduction 1. Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century Gender and Technology2. Television's Earliest Years 3. Women in Early British Television 4. Women in Early US Television 5. Populations, Consumers and Audiences 6. The US Female Television Audience 7. The British Female Television Audience Conclusion Bibliography Notes Index

O autorze

Sarah Arnold is Lecturer in Media at Maynooth University, Ireland. Her previous books include Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood (2013) and the co-authored Film Handbook (2013). Her research focuses on women and film and television. She is a regular contributor to the Critical Studies in Television blog and RTE Brainstorm.