Media, Information and Technoculture 3208F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Big Three Television Networks, Video On Demand, Remote Control
23 Sep 2020
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Unruly women in television: roseanne too big, funny, feminist, mary career driven woman. If a program was too feminist then it would drive away more traditional women. Women as viewers gender, work, and leisure: women"s work , the home as a site of labour (women stay at home vs. men out working, audience is also women at home, domestic labour and tv spectatorship. Intertwining of work and leisure: women"s magazine and ads, frames consumption as a solution to the conflicts between labour and leisure. Early representations of women on tv 1950"s: lucille ball, known as a clown, desire to escapre from household, comedic, critique of post-war domesticity, reinforced patronizing attitudes. Private sphere (reality tv: daytime becomes primetime, makeover, competition, docusoap, regular women vs. celebs, 2010"s: now, golden age vs. peak tv, netflix, original content, redistribution, cord-cutting, streaming, new channels, new tech.
