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OverviewA 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Annie BerkePublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Volume: 1 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780520300781ISBN 10: 0520300785 Pages: 302 Publication Date: 04 January 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Craftsmen and Work Wives The 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 Conclusion Better Than It Never Was Notes Bibliography IndexReviews"""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."" * Los Angeles Review of Books * ""Their Own Best Creations seamlessly bridges the fields of media studies and feminist studies via a rich and lively exploration of the women who scripted the first Golden Age of television."" * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *" 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. * Los Angeles Review of Books * Author InformationAnnie 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |