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Gender and early television : mapping women's role in emerging US and British media, 1850-1950 / Sarah Arnold.
Author
Arnold, Sarah, 1980-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
Description
xi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Details
Subject(s)
Women in television broadcasting
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Great Britain
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Women in television broadcasting
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United States
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Women television viewers
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Great Britain
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Women television viewers
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United States
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Series
Library of gender and popular culture
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Summary note
"Between the nineteenth century and the mid-twentieth century television transformed from an idea to an institution. In Gender and Early Television, Sarah Arnold traces women's relationship to the new medium of television across this period in the UK and USA. She argues that women played a crucial role in its development both as producers and as audiences long before the 'golden age' of television in the 1950s. Beginning with the emergence of media entertainment in the mid-nineteenth century and culminating in the rise of the post-war television industries, Arnold claims that, all along the way, women had a stake in television. As keen consumers of media, women also helped promote television to the public by performing as 'television girls'. Women worked as directors, producers, technical crew and announcers. It seemed that television was open to women. However, as Arnold shows, the increasing professionalisation of television resulted in the segregation of roles. Production became the sphere of men and consumption the sphere of women. While this binary has largely informed women's role in television, through her analysis, Arnold argues that it has not always been the case"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Nineteenth and early twentieth century gender and technology
Television's earliest years
Women in early British television
Women in early US television
Populations, consumers and audiences
The US female television audience
The British female television audience
Conclusion
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ISBN
9781780769769 (hardback)
1780769768 (hardback)
9781350240070 (paperback)
1350240079 (paperback)
LCCN
2020049475
OCLC
1243910034
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