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Routledge
Fans, Feminisms and 'Quality' Media considers how long-running and popular radio and TV programmes such as Inspector Morse and The Archers participate in contemporary debates about ethnicity and national identity, gender and feminisms, and tradition and modernity. Examining the connections between these programmes and heritage film, Lyn Thomas reveals how both programmes, in different ways,... Read more
Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction: Why Morse ? Why The Archers Why me? The Texts: Inspector Morse and The Archers as 'Quality' Media. The Audiences. 2. Bourdieu, Butler and Beyond: Theoretical Background of the study. 3. 'Quality' Media: Critical Debates, Texts and Contexts. 4. Introducing the Audience Study 5. In Love With Inspector Morse : Mainstream Fandom and Feminist Subculture 6. Archers 'Addicts' 7. Feminisms, Fans and Country Folk 8. Conclusion. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography
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Lyn Thomas
