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Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television Volume 1

Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television Volume 1

Paperback

Series: Feminist Media Histories

TelevisionGeneral SociologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0520300793
ISBN13: 9780520300798
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Jan 4 2022
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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