From Happy Homemaker to Desperate Housewives

From Happy Homemaker to Desperate HousewivesMotherhood and Popular Television is designed to introduce readers to key debates concerning the representations of motherhood and the maternal role in contemporary television programming.

This addition to Intellect’s Directory of World Cinema series turns the spotlight on the award-winning cinema of that nation

the book examines themes

sociology and cultural anthropology

the Pacific

to the "maternal avengers" of rape-revenge melodrama such as "An Eye for an Eye"

including the writings published posthumously in recent decades

Alex de Ruyter and Martyn Brown explain the key facets of the gig economy and explore the dangers and potential it affords

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and appropriated Bond over the sixty years of his existence from the pages of Ian Fleming's novels to the screen

tracing the various ways that auteurs have created dramatic narratives that explore the idea of being “British” and all its inherent complexity

Martin Henning explores why economic growth and transformation is essentially a regionally based and spatially dependent process and introduces the core ideas involved in understanding the dynamics of regional economies drawing on case studies to illuminate these ideas in practice

and unique approaches to television as an art form