JANE SHATTUC is Professor of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College, Boston, USA. She has written primarily about American and European television industries and how their aesthetic and industrial forms relate to class and gender. Her books include: Television, Tabloids, Tears: Fassbinder and Popular Culture (1995) and The Talking Cure: TV Talk Shows and Women (1997). She co-edited Hop on Pop: the Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture (2002) with Henry Jenkins and Tara McPherson.
