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Television Studies

This guide is an introduction to library and internet resources for Television Studies.
  • Introduction
  • TV courses
  • Introductory resources
  • Finding books about television
  • Finding television shows
  • Journals & magazines about television
  • History of television
  • Censorship
  • TV criticism
  • TV theory
  • Writing for television
  • Television adaptations
    • Shakespeare on television
  • TV ratings
  • TV audiences
  • TV advertising
  • TV reviews
  • TV genres This link opens in a new window
  • Quality television
  • Children's television
  • Sports on TV
  • Racial & ethnic representation on TV
    • African American diaspora
    • Asian American diaspora
    • Hispanic American diaspora
    • Native American & Indigenous diaspora
  • Women on/in/creating Television
    • Examples of women on television
  • LGBTQIA+
    • Examples of LGBTQIA+ on television
  • Television broadcasting & networks
  • Global television
  • Television in Europe
  • Chinese television
  • Spanish language TV
  • Public access television
  • Television news
  • Mass media industry
  • Transcripts
  • Television through the decades
    • 1950's Television & Earlier
    • 1960's Television
    • 1970's Television
    • 1980's Television
    • 1990's Television
    • 2000's Television
    • 2010's Television
  • Streaming television
  • Streaming film services
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Other library resource(s)

  • Sob sisters: the image of the female journalist in popular culture 1929-2007 by the Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture (IJPC)
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #15818
    A video compilation containing movie and television clips tracing the image of the female journalist in films and television from 1929 to 2007.
  • Resource logoUnladylike 2020 by Charlotte Mangin; Sandra Rattley
    • Video
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Streaming video
    Unladylike2020 is a series of 26 short films and a one-hour documentary profiling diverse and little-known American women from the turn of the 20th century, and contemporary women who follow in their footsteps. ...

New books in the library's collections

Find new items on women and television in the collections.

In the Library's collections

Suggested subject headings for searching the online catalog include:

  • women on television
    Call number range is PN 1992.8 .W65 on Baker Level 4.
  • african american women on television
  • women in television broadcasting
  • television and women
  • women in mass media
    Portrayal of women in mass media.

Introductory reading(s)

  • Cover artBranded women in U. S. television: when people become corporations by Peter Bjelskou
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry HF 6146 .P78 B54 2015
    ISBN: 9780739187937
    Branded Women in U.S. Television examines how The Real Housewives of New York City, Martha Stewart, and other female entrepreneurs create branded televised versions of the iconic U.S. housewife. Using their television presence to establish and promote their own product lines, including jewelry, cookware, clothing, and skincare, they become the primary physical representations of these brands.
  • Cover artWomen and American television: an encyclopedia by Denise Lowe
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.8 .W65 L69 1999
    ISBN: 9780874369700
    This work presents more than 400 A to Z entries on the individuals, programs, media innovations, and broad topics that tell the story of women's involvement both in front of and behind the television camera. From thought-provoking trends to entertaining trivia, this delightfully illustrated encyclopedia covers it all: Gracie Allen, Ally McBeal, Asian women, black sitcoms, cable TV, the Emmys, tabloid and talk shows, older women on television, Penny Marshall, Our Miss Brooks, Jane Pauley, soap operas, Jamie Tarses, That Girl, Oprah Winfrey, and more. ...
  • Cover artWomen on screen: feminism and femininity in visual culture by Melanie Waters; Stacy Gillis, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .W6 W666 2011
    ISBN: 9780230229655
    A timely intervention into debates on the representation of feminist and feminine identities in contemporary visual culture.

Selected book title(s)

  • Cover ArtThe Broadcast 41: women and the anti-Communist blacklist by Carol A. Stabile
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    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781906897864
    How forty-one women--including Dorothy Parker, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Lena Horne--were forced out of American television and radio in the 1950s "Red Scare." At the dawn of the Cold War era, forty-one women working in American radio and television were placed on a media blacklist and forced from their industry. The ostensible reason: so-called Communist influence. But in truth these women--among them Dorothy Parker, Lena Horne, and Gypsy Rose Lee--were, by nature of their diversity and ambition, a threat to the traditional portrayal of the American family on the airwaves. ...
  • Cover ArtContested images: women of color in popular culture by Alma M. García, ed.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry P 9.5 .M552 U6273 2012
    ISBN: 9780759119628
    Contested Images: Women of Color in Popular Culture is a collection of 17 essays that analyze representations in popular culture of African American, Asian American, Latina, and Native American women. The anthology is divided into four parts: film images, beauty images, music, and television. ...
  • Cover artThe Donna Reed show by Joanne Morreale
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780814335086
    At a time when television offered limited opportunities for women, Donna Reed was an Oscar-winning Hollywood actress who became both producer (though largely uncredited) and star of her own television show. Distinct from the patriarchal family sitcoms of the era, The Donna Reed Show's storylines focused on the mother instead of the father, and its production brought a cinematic aesthetic to television situation comedy.
  • Cover artLatina/o stars in U.S. eyes: the making and meanings of film and tv stardom by Mary C. Beltrán
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .H47 B45 2009
    ISBN: 9780252076510
    This book explores the role film and television stardom has played in establishing, reinforcing, and challenging popular ethnic notions of Latina/os in the United States since the silent film era of the 1920s. In addition to documenting the importance of Latina and Latino stars to American film and television history, Mary C. Beltrán focuses on key moments in the construction of "Hollywood Latinidad" by analyzing the public images of these stars as promoted by Hollywood film studios, television networks, producers, and the performers themselves. ...
  • Cover artPrime-time feminism: television, media culture, and the women's movement since 1970 by Bonnie J. Dow
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.8 .W65 D69 1996
    ISBN: 9780812215540
    Dow discusses a wide variety of television programming and provides specific case studies of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, One Day at a Time, Designing Women, Murphy Brown, and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. ...
  • Cover artPrivate screenings: television and the female consumer by Lynn Spigel
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780816620531
    While much research into television has been historical, textual, or empirical, this volume approaches the topic from a sociocultural and feminist perspective, to address important questions from the viewpoint of the audience as well as from that of the industry. The contributors examine the ways in which the television industry seeks to deliver a female audience to its advertisers while inserting itself into women's lives, both at home and in the marketplace - hence the concept of a private screening in which the outside media world is brought into the personal space. ...
  • Cover ArtThe women who made television funny: ten stars of 1950s sitcoms by David C. Tucker
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.8 .C66 T83 2007
    ISBN: 9780786429004
    Most of the bright and talented actresses who made America laugh in the 1950s are off the air today, but their pioneering Hollywood careers irrevocably changed the face of television comedy. These smart and sassy women successfully negotiated the hazards of the male-dominated workplace with class and humor, and the work they did in the 1950s is inventive still by today's standards. Unable to fall back on strong language, shock value, or racial and sexual epithets, the female sitcom stars of the 1950s entertained with pure talent and screen savvy. ...
  • Cover artThird wave feminism and television: Jane puts it in a box by Merri Lisa Johnson, ed.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.8 .W65 T45 2007
    ISBN: 9781845112455
    The sexual politics of television culture is the territory covered by this ground-breaking book - the first to demonstrate the ways in which third wave feminist television studies approaches and illuminates mainstream TV. Leading voices in third wave feminism focus on innovative US television shows, including The Sopranos, Oz, Six Feet Under, The L Word and the reality-TV show The Bachelor to take a closer look at the contradictions and reciprocities between feminism and television, engaging as they go in theoretical and critical conversations about media culture, third wave feminism, feminist spectatorship, the sex wars, and the politics of visual pleasure. ...
  • Cover artWomen watching television: gender, class, and generation in the American television experience by Andrea L. Press
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry HQ 1233 .P74 1991
    ISBN: 9780812212860
    Women's inclinations to identify with television characters varies with their assessment of the realism of these characters and their social world.

Finding scholarly articles & journal title(s)

You can find articles about women in film in different publications. You can search Film & Television Literature Index or the search box at the top of the page.

  • Issue cover artCamera obscura
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    Camera Obscura provides a forum for scholarship and debate on feminism, culture, and media studies. The journal encourages contributions in areas such as the conjunctions of gender, race, class, and sexuality with audiovisual culture; new histories and theories of film, television, video, and digital media; and politically engaged approaches to a range of media practices.
  • Resource logoMLA international bibliography by Modern Language Association
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    MLA International Bibliography indexes journal articles, books and dissertations. Coverage includes literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.
  • Resource logoFilm & television literature index by EBSCO Publishing
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    Use this index to find articles about this topic.
  • Resource logoWomen's studies international by EBSCO
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    This resource includes references from a variety of Women's Studies bibliographic databases.
  • Resource logoWeb of science citation databases by Clarivate
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.

Internet resource(s)

  • Alliance for Women in Media
    • Link
    The Alliance for Women in Media is an organization for women, by women. They are committed to supporting women across all media segments, to expand networks, educate and celebrate accomplishments.
  • Alliance of Women Film Journalists logo
    Alliance of Women Film Journalists
    • Link
    Their purpose is to amplify the voices of women critics, provide a platform for the expression of women’s perspectives on film and support work by and about women – both in front of and behind the cameras – through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting the annual EDA Awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the movies. ...
  • Center for the Study of Women in Television & Film
    • Link
    The Center is dedicated to producing extensive and timely research, studies generated by the Center provide the foundation for a realistic and meaningful discussion of women’s on-screen representation and behind-the-scenes employment. Their research includes studies such as It's A Man's (Celluloid) World and Boxed In.
  • The Shot logo
    Forgotten Black Actresses from The Shot
    • Link
    During the Golden Era of Hollywood, beloved Black actresses Lena Horne and Dorothy Dandridge dominated the big screen with their undeniable beauty and talent—but they weren’t the only ones. In fact, there were many incredibly talented Black actresses of the time whose roles went unnoticed and uncredited as a result of racial discrimination. And these women deserve their names in lights. ...
  • Institute logo
    Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
    • Link
    This is the only organization working within the entertainment industry to educate and influence the creation of gender balanced onscreen roles, reduce harmful stereotypes and create an expanse of unique and intersectional female characters in entertainment targeting children 11 and under.
  • Girls on Film podcast
    Girls on Film podcast
    • Podcast
    Girls On Film is a film review podcast from a female perspective, hosted by film critic and broadcaster Anna Smith and produced by co-founder Hedda Archbold at HLA Agency.
  • Unladylike2020
    Unladylike2020
    • Video
    • Link
    Unladylike2020 is a series of 26 short films and a one-hour documentary profiling diverse and little-known American women from the turn of the 20th century, and contemporary women who follow in their footsteps. ...
  • Women and Hollywood
    • Link
    Women and Hollywood educates, advocates, and agitates for gender parity across the entertainment industry.
  • Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP)
    • Link
    The Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP) is a digital publication and resource that advances research on the hundreds of women who worked behind the scenes during the silent film era. WFPP publishes original scholarship on women who worked all around the world as directors, producers, screenwriters, editors, and more. ...
  • Women in Film
    • Link
    Women In Film is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting equal opportunities for women, encouraging creative projects by women, and expanding and enhancing portrayals of women in all forms of global media.
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