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Television Women from Lucy to Friends - Fifty Years of Sitcoms and Feminism

English · Hardback

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For more than 50 years, television situation comedy has been inspiring laughter while reflecting American culture in unique and often fascinating ways. Between the prefeminist antics of Lucy Ricardo and the postfeminist musings of the women in Friends, the depiction of females in this genre has evolved as interestingly and surprisingly as the women's movement itself. In Televison Women from Lucy to Friends, author Lynn Spangler applies a cultural feminist perspective to many shows and characters, discussing the nature of humor, theories of television effects, and various definitions of feminism.

Each decade of the half-century is analyzed, with six series highlighted for each period. The author discusses, for each sitcom, the features of its major female characters, including their appearance, work, and education, female friends, relationships with men, and other social issues that have made the situation comedy a powerful lens through which to view 20th-century feminist subjects.

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Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Life with Television
1940s and 1950s: Housewives and Secretaries
1960s: War and Witches
1970s: Spunky Girls and Angry Women
1980s: Working Moms and Golden Women
1990s and Beyond: Post-Feminism and Best Friends
Loving and Not Loving Lucy
Selected Bibliography
Index


About the author

LYNN C. SPANGLER teaches in the Department of Communcation and Media at the State University of New York, New Paltz, where she is Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Product details

Authors Lynn C. Spangler, Spangler Lynn C.
Publisher Bloomsbury
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation ages 7 to 17
Product format Hardback
Released 30.09.2003
 
EAN 9780313287817
ISBN 978-0-313-28781-7
No. of pages 304
Weight 624 g
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet

Dance, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, Other performing arts, Dance & Other Performing Arts, Popular Culture: Media, Television, and Radio

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