Elana Levine: 2 books
Wallowing in Sex
The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Passengers disco dancing in The Love Boat’s Acapulco Lounge. A young girl walking by a marquee advertising Deep Throat in the made-for-TV movie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway. A frustrated housewife borrowing Orgasm and You from her local library in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Commercial television...
Legitimating Television
Media Convergence and Cultural Status
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining a new level of cultural respectability in the 21st century. Once looked down upon as a "plug-in drug" offering little redeeming social or artistic value, television is now said to be in a creative...