... dominant white culture of the day and from the popular memory of her trans-media audience. This study will focus on the contexts of her work at the beginning of her career, and end with her late career on local and network television as sites that provide new speculative interventions to recognize...

...Jennifer Blaylock When Ghana Television began in 1965, its first director, Shirley Graham Du Bois, explicitly devised it as an anticolonial and pan-African indigenous television system. Likely the first Black woman to head a national station, Graham Du Bois’ prominence, along with Genoveva Marais...

...Monica De La Torre; Christine Marín In this photo essay, we center Chicana radio and television broadcasting trailblazer Graciela Gil Olivarez who, with a microphone in hand, amplified Mexicana and Chicana voices and stories across the Southwest from 1951 to the mid-1960s and again in the 1980s...

... television transgender In May 2014, Time magazine declared “The Transgender Tipping Point.” 1 In an elegant blue dress, Black trans actor Laverne Cox—now widely recognized thanks to her role in Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black (2013–19)—appeared on the iconic white and red cover as evidence...

...Yingzi Wang; Sabina Mihelj This paper examines changing representations of women in Chinese television dramas since the early 1990s and interprets them within a framework of global socialist media cultures, considering both domestic developments and transnational trends. Drawing on the analysis...

...Emma Sandon The experiences of women engineers working in the BBC Television Service at Alexandra Palace, London, during the 1940s and 1950s, give insights into gender discrimination in broadcasting. These women first joined as radio engineers when the BBC was recruiting women during World War II...

...Elana Levine female spectator melodrama soap opera television woman's film © 2018 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's...

...=reprints . 2018 audiences industry studies intersectionality race television Janet McCabe and Kim Akass's “Feminist Television Criticism: Notes and Queries” (2006) offers an expansive notion of feminist television studies: “Never monolithic, the wide-ranging knowledges produced by feminism...

.../journals.php?p=reprints . 2018 children's media feminism television NOTES 1. The film is based on Roald Dahl's 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory . 2. After Mike is shrunken into near oblivion by his trip through the airwaves and his mother is escorted to the taffy-pulling...

...Bridget Kies In the 1980s, domestic sitcoms on television proliferated with examples of men who performed domestic labor. In response to the women's movement, these “Mr. Mom” sitcoms liberated women from the domestic sphere and enabled men to claim it as their own. This article examines...

...Diana W. Anselmo Dominated by LGBTQ+ and female-identified fans from various backgrounds, Tumblr blogs dedicated to queer readings of the BBC television series Sherlock (2010–ongoing) are a breeding ground for less-discussed forms of unremunerated queer labor: utopian, heuristic, and care work...

...Annie Berke The television adaptation of How to Marry a Millionaire (1957–59) premiered on the NTA Film Network on October 7, 1957, and was described by one reporter as “a frivolous series, by turns amusing and corny.” That the show was, even in its day, notably camp serves as an important...

...Jilly Boyce Kay This article explores the six-part television debate series No Man's Land , which was broadcast on ITV in Britain in 1973. It argues that the program is a historically significant example of the public orientation of the women's liberation movement and its engagement with, rather...