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Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television Volume 1
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publish Date: Jan 4th, 2022
- Pages: 302
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.70in - 0.90lb
- EAN: 9780520300798
- Categories: • Television - History & Criticism• Women's Studies• Media Studies
About the Author
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.
Praise for this book
"Drawing on writers who worked in both film and radio, Berke's book will pique the interest of radio and television scholars, but her conceptual frameworks and innovative use of texts alongside industrial history make it essential reading for students and scholars of media industries and labor."-- "Media Industries Journal"
"The book is energetic and animated, drawing on rich source materials that come to life. . . . an impressive accomplishment and valuable contribution."-- "H-Soz-Kult"
"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"
-- "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"