The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap Opera traces the history of the feminist engagement with soap opera using a wide range of sources from programme publicity to interviews with key scholars. The book reveals that feminist scholarship on soap opera was a significant site of which the identity 'feminist intellectual' was produced in dialogue with her imagined other, the soap opera watching housewife. The book integrates personal autobiographical accounts within a broader history which traces both the move from 'women's liberation' to 'Feminism', and the acceptance of soap opera as a...

Charlotte Brundson's key writings on film and television are bought together with new introductions which contextualise and update the arguments. The focus is on the tastes and pleasures of the female consumer as she is produced by popular film and television.

This volume brings together David Morley and Charlotte Brunsdon's texts. Originally published in 1978 and 1980, Everyday Television: Nationwide and The Nationwide Audience were a record of textual readings and audience analysis of the BBCs leading current affairs news magazine Nationwide which ran from 1969 to 1984.

First published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Traces the history of the feminist engagement with soap opera using a wide range of sources from programme publicity to interviews with key scholars. The book reveals that feminist scholarship on soap opera was a significant site of which the identity feminist intellectual was produced in dialogue with her imagined other, the soap opera-watching housewife. The book integrates personal autobiographical accounts within a broader history which traces both the move from women's liberation to feminism, and the acceptance of soap opera as a serious object of study.

This book brings together for the first time David Morley and Charlotte Brunsdon's classic texts, Everyday Television: Nationwide and The Nationwide Audience. Originally published in 1978 and 1980 these two research projects combine innovative textual readings and audience analysis of the BBC's current affairs programme Nationwide. In a specially written introduction the authors trace the history of the original Nationwide project and clarify the origins of the two books.

In Television Cities Charlotte Brunsdon traces television's representations of metropolitan spaces to show how they reflect the medium's history and evolution, thereby challenging the prevalent assumptions about television as quintessentially suburban. Brunsdon shows how the BBC's presentation of 1960s Paris in the detective series Maigret signals British culture's engagement with twentieth-century modernity and continental Europe, while various portrayals of London--ranging from Dickens adaptations to the 1950s nostalgia of Call the Midwife--demonstrate Britain's...