Their Own Best Creations

Women Writers in Postwar Television

AvAnnie Berke

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Del 1 i serien Feminist Media Histories

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A rich account that combines media-industry history and cultural studies, Their Own Best Creations looks at women writers' contributions to some of the most popular genres of postwar TV: comedy-variety, family sitcom, daytime soap, and suspense anthology. During the 1950s, when the commercial medium of television was still being defined, women writers navigated pressures at work, constructed public personas that reconciled traditional and progressive femininity, and asserted that a woman's point of view was essential to television as an art form. The shows they authored allegorize these professional and personal pressures and articulate a nascent second-wave feminist consciousness. Annie Berke brings to light the long-forgotten and under-studied stories of these women writers and crucially places them in the historical and contemporary record.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-01-04
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Feminist Media Histories
Antal sidor:302
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520300781

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Annie Berke is the film editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her scholarship and criticism have been published in Camera Obscura, Public Books, Feminist Media Histories, Ms, and the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television. She was formerly Assistant Professor of Film at Hollins University.

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"Berke’s imagination — bolstered by insight, expertise, and scholarship — reveals stunning depths. Authors’ intent may be unknowable, but critical interpretations are their own kind of creative work. Berke’s interpretations are generative and convincing accounts of the way that art and artists can come to reflect each other."

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Craftsmen and Work WivesThe Gendering of Television Writing 2. “A Sea of Male Interests”Your Show of Shows and the Comedy of Female Mischief 3. Gertrude Berg, Peg Lynch, and the “Small Situation”of the Stay-at-Home Showrunner 4. “What Girl Shouldn’t?”The Many Children of Irna Phillips 5. “Knowing All the Plots”Presenting the Woman Story Editor 6. “A Girl’s Gotta Live”The Literate Heroines of the Suspense Anthology Drama ConclusionBetter Than It Never Was NotesBibliographyIndex