Screen Tastes: Soap Opera to Satellite Dishes

Screen Tastesbrings together Brunsdon's key writings on film and television criticism, with introductions which contextualize and update the arguments and new work on the "post-feminist girly" in recent Hollywood cinema. Brunsdon's focus is on the tastes and pleasures of the female consumer as she is produced by popular film and television--and by feminist criticism. Screen Tastesdocuments an important contribution to the development of a feminist cultural studies in the 1980s and 1990s with concerns ranging from "shopping films" to the deregulation of public service broadcasting, from feminist teachings to the aestetics of television.