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Review Of Berke, Their Own Best Creations, Cynthia Meyers Nov 2023

Review Of Berke, Their Own Best Creations, Cynthia Meyers

Journal of 20th Century Media History

Review of Their Own Best Creation: Women Writers in Postwar Television, by Annie Berke.


Broadcast History Gaps When Archival Material Exists: Inserting Peg Lynch And Ethel And Albert Into Sitcom History, Lauren Bratslavsky Nov 2023

Broadcast History Gaps When Archival Material Exists: Inserting Peg Lynch And Ethel And Albert Into Sitcom History, Lauren Bratslavsky

Journal of 20th Century Media History

Lucy and Desi. Burns and Allen. Ozzie and Harriet. Ethel and Albert? The first three television couples tend to be the familiar husband-wife pairs that typify American 1950s sitcoms. These characters and their namesake programs, along with the Andersons in Father Knows Best and the Cleavers in Leave it to Beaver, are credited as templates for the domestic sitcom genre, where the narrative logic oscillates between morality lessons and outlandish plots to escape domestic life. When we study or reminisce about 1950s television, Ethel and Albert and their namesake program do not readily come to mind. However, the popularity …


Smarginatura: The Art And Politics Of Elena Ferrante, Ryan A. Lillestrand Oct 2023

Smarginatura: The Art And Politics Of Elena Ferrante, Ryan A. Lillestrand

Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union

In the Neapolitan Quartet, a sprawling epic following the lives of two women in post-war Italy, the author, Elena Ferrante, explores the intimate relationship between politics and art, pushing at the borders we often construct between the two. At a particularly critical moment in the novels, the central character, Elena Greco, a poor girl from Naples who rises to the position of a successful novelist, is told by her more politically radical friends that she is not doing enough, that “this, objectively, is not the moment for writing novels.” But then, when is? The current political climate in Italy is …


Introduction To The Special Issue: Celebrating Unheard Voices Of Charismatic Women In Indian Writing In English, Smita Jha, Bhushan Sharma, Aruni Mahapatra Jul 2023

Introduction To The Special Issue: Celebrating Unheard Voices Of Charismatic Women In Indian Writing In English, Smita Jha, Bhushan Sharma, Aruni Mahapatra

Journal of International Women's Studies

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