Tag: Women
HERSTORY? THE POTENTIAL OF FEMALE-CENTRED HISTORICAL MINISERIES MADE IN GERMANY (2001-2021) by Sandra Becker and Berber Hagedoorn
“[W]hen women in the movement use herstory, their purpose is to emphasize that women’s lives,...
Read More
NEW PUBLICATION: WOMEN DO GENRE IN FILM AND TELEVISION by Katarzyna Paszkiewicz
This post has originally been published on the Women’s Film and Television History Network...
Read MoreCFP: Independent Women: From Film to Television
Issue Guest Editors: Claire Perkins (Monash University) and Michele Schreiber (Emory University) Working in television has historically been considered ‘bread and butter’ labour for female filmmakers around the world. For...
Read More
No Way to Treat a Lady: The Decline and Fall of Soap Opera by Martha Nochimson
About two years ago, at a dinner party, with my husband to my left, I was surprised when I turned...
Read More
The CW, Legitimate Television, and Gendering by Bärbel Göbel-Stolz
“The US network The CW celebrates its ten-year anniversary this year.” That is the opening...
Read MoreCFP: Women Who Kill in English-speaking Cinema and TV Series of the Postfeminist Era
Call for Chapters Within the fields of film and television studies, feminist critics and scholars of the 1980s and 1990s have extensively analyzed the figures of women murderers in classical film genres like film noir and...
Read MoreWOMEN AND ‘BANTER’ IN BRITISH TELEVISION ENTERTAINMENT by Helen Wood
I have spent most of the last week worrying about my upcoming turn on the CST rota. Like Kim Akass my TV viewing habits have gone awry, mine in the inevitable balancing act of work/life/kids where at present I am wedded to...
Read More