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...Pamela Wilson Copyright © 1994 by Indiana University Press 1994 The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd Upscale Feminine Angst: Molly Dodd, the Lifetime Cable Network and Gender Marketing Pamela Wilson The narrative in the trade press about the TV series The Days and Nights...

...Jackie Byars; Eileen R. Meehan Copyright © 1994 by Indiana University Press 1994 John Shea and Jenny Roberston in Notorious (Lifetime remake, 1992). Once in a Lifetime: Constructing “The Working Woman” through Cable Narrowcasting Jackie Byars and Eileen R. Meehan...

...Jane Feuer Copyright © 1994 by Indiana University Press 1994 Prisolzers of Wedlock (Lifetime, 1991) Feminism on Lifetime: Yuppie TV for the Nineties Jane Feuer The idea that a text alters its “horizon” upon each re-reading is crucial to literary criticism, particularly...

...Laura Stempel Mumford Copyright © 1994 by Indiana University Press 1994 thirtysomething Stripping on the Girl Channel: Lifetime, thirtysomething, and Television Form Laura Stempel Mumford Television drama texts are defined as much...

...Eithne Johnson Copyright © 1994 by Indiana University Press 1994 Theresa Saldana in Confessions of Crime. Lifetime’s Feminine Psychographic Space and the “Mystery Loves Company” Series Eitbne Johnson Since its debut in 1984, Lifetime Television has been carving a niche...

... in a contradictory manner throughout her lifetime — from poet, to political activist, to filmmaker, to anthropologist, and so on. Third, it investigates Deren's ethnicity — her status as a Russian immigrant Jew, a characterization about which she had great ambivalence. Fourth, it examines her early writings...

...Rebecca J. DeRoo Abstract This article examines how Agnès Varda used speeches and activism at the Cannes Film Festival in recent years to reveal and challenge the underrepresentation of female directors in the film industry. At the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, she accepted an honorary Palme (lifetime...

...Carolyn Bronstein Copyright © 1994 by Indiana University Press 1994 A Healthy Challenge: The National Nutrition Test (Lifetime Television, 1993) Mission Accomplished? Profits and Programming at the Network for Women Carolyn Bronstein In the latest round of proposed funding cuts...

...Julie D'Acci Copyright © 1994 by Indiana University Press 1994 Lifetime logo, courtesy of Lifetime Television Introduction The idea for an issue on Lifetime emerged several years ago as a number of scholars began studying that curious and elusive phenomenon called “Television...

... Accomplished? Profits and Programming at the Network for Women. NO. 33-34; pp. 213-242. Byars, Jackie and Eileen R. Meehan Once in a Lifetime: Constructing the “Working Woman” through Cable Narrowcasting. No. 33-34; pp. 13-42. Cooks, Bridget See...

... originally aired on ABC during 1990 and 1991, and which were stripped off- network (along with the rest of the series) on Lifetime between 1991 and 1994. In these episodes, the show enacts a series of temporal and geographic dislocations, shuttling continuously between...

...Joe Wlodarz Copyright © 1994 by Indiana University Press 1994 Disclaimer for “Strangers” episode of thirtysomething on Lifetime. Smokin’ Tokens: thirtysomething and TV’s Queer Dilemma Joe Wlodarz WARNING!: DUE TO ADULT THEMES, READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. In recent...

... of mystery is not only a calculating detective, but also a woman with a heart that frequently leads her into trouble. Lifetime Network Promo’ Icy Veronica Clare (Laura Robinson): widow-spinster, high- cheekboned, sleek...

...- ent, she is writing a book with Eileen R. Meehan on Lifetime that synthesizes the theories and methods of political economy, cultural studies, and feminist studies. Jane Feuer teaches in the Film Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author...

... in progress titled “Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production.” Love and Fit Lisa Henderson “I wish I were her, I really do.”  — Meryl Streep, accepting an American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award, June 2004 I wish I were her too. Twenty-eight years ago...

....” The “working woman” is something of a razson d’8tre of the Lifetime channel: it is sought after as a market segment by Lifetime executives, used to persuade advertisers to buy time on the channel, and, concomitantly, made the subject of numerous advertise- ments, series, and made-for-TV movies...

..., 2009 – ). “Quality” Reality and the Bravo Media Reality Series Jane Feuer When a new reality show, Million Dollar Shoppers, debuted on the Lifetime cable network in October 2013, my best TV friend thanked me for recommending it to her. We agreed that it was “good enough...

... treasurer and thus part of the executive council. In Vancouver, I had a special role I was pleased to play: presenting an SCMS Hon- orary Lifetime Membership Award to B. Ruby Rich.3 The name of that feminist/queer film theorist and critic, arts administrator, programmer, educator (and recently...

.... It was an ultimate act of generosity and trust in a lifetime full of magnanimous gestures. Once again, it was Barbara speaking to me, saying, “I've done this, but you can do things your way, too; and I have confidence in you.” I still feel her leading me by example and encouraging my personal discoveries. I hope I...

.... By treating her story as a mere anecdote, she trivializes a lifetime of struggle. She enters and leaves the discourse as, in Bauman's words, “the sediments of other people's actions,” a lifetime of struggle promptly dismissed like a parenthetical aside. 15 Gilbert attempts to portray the refugee...