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Volume 3, Number 1, Fall 2004 Lisa Johnson, Guest Editor
Feminist Television Studies
The Case of HBO
About this Issue
Introduction
About the Contributors


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Recommended Reading

Akass, Kim and Janet McCabe, eds. Reading Sex and the City. London: I.B. Tauris, 2004.

Ball, Alan and Alan Poul, eds. Six Feet Under: Better Living through Death. New York: Melcher Media, 2003.

Barreca, Regina. "Why I Like the Women in The Sopranos Even Though I'm Not Supposed To." In A Sitdown with The Sopranos: Watching Italian American Culture on TV's Most Talked-About Series, edited by Barreca, 27-46. New York: Palgrave, 2002.

Brunsdon, Charlotte, Julie D'Acci, and Lynn Spigel, eds. Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader. Oxford: Clarendon, 1997.

Bogle, Donald. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films. 3rd ed. New York: Continuum, 1994.

Chase, David. "The Real Boss of The Sopranos." Interview by Virginia Heffernan. The New York Times, February 29, 2004, late edition (East coast), p. 2.1.

Clemetson, Lynette, et al. "Doing It All? Young Feminists Take On Work, Family, and the Meaning of Success: A Panel Discussion." Scholar and Feminist Online 2.3 (2004), http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/family/panel_01.htm.

D'Emilio, John. "Capitalism and Gay Identity." In The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, edited by Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, and David M. Halperin, 467-76. London: Routledge, 1993.

Douglas, Susan. Where the Girls Are: Growing up Female with the Mass Media. New York: Times, 1994.

Dow, Bonnie J. Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement since 1970. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1996.

Fiske, John. Understanding Popular Culture. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989.

Gardiner, Judith Kegan. "Introduction." Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory: New Directions. Edited by Gardiner, 1-29. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

Guerrero, Ed. "The Black Image in Protective Custody: Hollywood's Biracial Buddy Films of the Eighties." In Black American Cinema, edited by Manthia Diawara. New York: Routledge, 1993.

Halberstam, Judith. "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Men, Women, and Masculinity." Gardner, Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory, 344-67.

Hochschild, Arlie Russell. The Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

hooks, bell. Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Jenkins, Henry, Tara McPherson, and Jane Shattuc, eds. Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture. Durham: Duke UP, 2002.

Kellner, Douglas. Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity, and Politics between the Modern and the Postmodern. London: Routledge, 1995.

Kelly, Audrey. "Made Man: Hit After Hit, David Chase Ushers The Sopranos into Big Time." Interview with David Chase. Fade In 6, no. 3. Excerpt available online, http://www.fadeinonline.com/chase/interview/chase.html.

King, Neal and Martha McCaughey. "What's a Mean Woman Like You Doing in a Movie Like This?" In Reel Knockouts: Violent Women in the Movies. By King and McCaughey, 1Ð24. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001.

Kirkham, Pat and Beverley Skeggs. "Absolutely Fabulous: Absolutely Feminist?" In Geraghty, C. and D. Lusted, eds., The Television Studies Book. London: Arnold, 1998.

Lavery, David. This Thing of Ours: Investigating The Sopranos. New York: Columbia UP, 2002.

Lloyd, Robert. "Mob Rules: David Chase on The Sopranos, the Small Screen, and Rock and Roll." Interview with David Chase. LA Weekly, March 16-22, 2001, http://www.laweekly.com/ink/printme.php?eid=23162.

Lotz, Amanda. "Postfeminist Television Criticism: Rehabilitating Critical Terms and Identifying Postfeminist Attitudes." Feminist Media Studies 1.1 (2001): 105-21.

Maddison, Stephen. Fags, Hags and Queer Sisters: Gender Dissent and Heterosocial Bonds in Gay Culture. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Modleski, Tania. Feminism without Women: Culture and Criticism in a "Postfeminist" Age. New York: Routledge, 1991.

Muñoz, José Esteban. Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.

Nelson, Robin. TV Drama in Transition: Forms, Values, and Cultural Change. Basingstoke, UK: MacMillan, 1997.

Parsons, Deborah L. Streetwalking the Metropolis: Women, the City, and Modernity. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Projansky, Sarah. Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture. New York: NYUP, 2001.

Russo, Mary. The Female Grotesque: Risk, Excess, and Modernity. London: Routledge, 1995.

Shugart, Helene. "Reinventing Privilege: The New (Gay) Man in Contemporary Popular Media." Critical Studies in Media Communication 20.1 (March 2003): 67-91.

Tobin, Robert. "Six Feet Under and Post-Patriarchal Society." Film and History 32 (2002): 87-8.

Tullock, John. Television Drama: Agency, Audience, and Myth. London: Routledge, 1990.

Walters, Suzanna Danuta. Material Girls: Making Sense of Feminist Cultural Theory. Berkeley: U California P, 1995.

Wilson, Sherryl. Oprah, Celebrity, and Formations of Self. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2003.

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