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Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General
A rich account that combines media-industry history and cultural
studies, Their Own Best Creations looks at women writers'
contributions to some of the most popular genres of postwar TV:
comedy-variety, family sitcom, daytime soap, and suspense
anthology. During the 1950s, when the commercial medium of
television was still being defined, women writers navigated
pressures at work, constructed public personas that reconciled
traditional and progressive femininity, and asserted that a woman's
point of view was essential to television as an art form. The shows
they authored allegorize these professional and personal pressures
and articulate a nascent second-wave feminist consciousness. Annie
Berke brings to light the long-forgotten and under-studied stories
of these women writers and crucially places them in the historical
and contemporary record.
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