Their Own Best Creations

Their Own Best Creations

Women Writers in Postwar Television

Berke, Annie

University of California Press

01/2022

302

Mole

Inglês

9780520300798

15 a 20 dias

408

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Contents

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
Index