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In Screen Tastes , Charlotte Brunsdon analyses a wide range of contemporary film and television programmes, from British soap operas and crime series to Hollywood movies such as Working Girl and Pretty Woman . As well as interpreting the pleasures and meanings that these texts offer - particularly for women viewers - the book is concerned with the nature of media criticism, particularly feminist criticism, and the problematic aesthetics of popular culture. Why have feminist media critics been so interested in the soap opera viewer? What are the 'race' politics of the TV crime series? What is meant by 'quality' in television? And was the fuss about the erection of satellite dishes on British homes really about architectural values? Screen Tastes brings together Charlotte Brunsdon's key writings on film and television and its criticism, with new introductions which contextualise 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.

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Charlotte Brunsdon teaches in the Department of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. She edited the collection Films for Women (1986) and is the co-editor, with Julie D’Acci and Lynn Spigel, of Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader (1997).

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