Gender and Early Television
Mapping Women’s Role in Emerging US and British Media, 1850-1950
Gender and Early Television
Mapping Women’s Role in Emerging US and British Media, 1850-1950
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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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Series Editors' Foreword
Introduction
1. Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century Gender and Technology
2. Television's Earliest Years
3. Women in Early British Television
4. Women in Early US Television
5. Populations, Consumers and Audiences
6. The US Female Television Audience
7. The British Female Television Audience
Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes
Index
Product details
| Published | 20 May 2021 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781786736161 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Library of Gender and Popular Culture |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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