Feminist and soap operas: a coming to terms from a translation to Charlotte Brunsdon

Abstract

Charlotte Brunsdon is a television studies researcher who has been dedicated to connect audiovisual materials with feminism. In this case, is presented a translation of the chapter “The role of the soap operas in the development of feminist television criticism” in her 1997 book Screen Tastes: Soap Opera to Satellite Dishes. In this chapter she presents an introduction to the interest of feminist to study the soap operas, that leads to open the diversity of studies that has been done about them, some previous analysis, and the relevance to our media era that we live in.