UID:
almahu_9949481466802882
Format:
1 online resource (302 p.)
ISBN:
9780520972025
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9783110992809
Series Statement:
Feminist Media Histories ; 1
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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1. Craftsmen and Work Wives. The Gendering of Television Writing --
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2. "A Sea of Male Interests". Your Show of Shows and the Comedy of Female Mischief --
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3. Gertrude Berg, Peg Lynch, and the "Small Situation" of the Stay-at-Home Showrunner --
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4. "What Girl Shouldn't?". The Many Children of Irna Phillips --
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5. "Knowing All the Plots". Presenting the Woman Story Editor --
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6. "A Girl's Gotta Live". The Literate Heroines of the Suspense Anthology Drama --
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Conclusion. Better Than It Never Was --
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NoteS --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110992809
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Arts, Architecture and Design 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110992816
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110994810
In:
University of California Press Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110766493
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520300781
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520972025
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520972025?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780520972025
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