Studies in Entertainment

Foreword
Introduction
I. Traditions of Mass Culture Criticism
1. An Interview with Raymond Williams
Stephen Heath and Gillian Skirrow
2. Theodor Adorno Meets the Cadillacs
Bernard Gendron
II. Studies in Television
3. Television/Sound
Rick Altman
4. The Television News Personality and Credibility: Reflections on the News in Transition
Margaret Morse
5. Situation Comedy, Feminism, and Freud: Discourses of Gracie and Lucy
Patricia Mellencamp
III. Feminist Studies in Entertainment
6. Woman Is an Island: Femininity and Colonization
Judith Williamson
7. The Incorporation of Women: A Comparison of North American and Mexican Popular Narrative
Jean Franco
8. Fragments of a Fashionable Discourse
Kaja Silverman
IV. Redrawing the Boundaries Between Art and Entertainment
9. The Terror of Pleasure: The Contemporary Horror Film and Postmodern Theory
Tania Modleski
10. Brief Encounters: Mass Culture and the Evacuation of Sense
Dana Polan
11. Mass Culture as Woman: Modernism's Other
Andreas Huyssen
Contributors