“I might study television, but I write my own scripts,” with Dr. Kate Flach

In which the Historians discuss connections between lynching photography and the power of television, the racial politics of Bravo touching on current events and hypocrisies in reality television storylines, historical contexts for cultural liberalism and its limits, Max takes over the Bonko Party game, and we all come to grips with the end of a really long semester, and much, much more!

Recommended Readings

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Kate Flach Op-Eds:

“Thanks to conservative politicians and the media, the education wars echo the 1960s,” Washington Post, November 19, 2021

“The ‘Wonder Years’ remake resurrects a 1970 tactic to diversify TV viewing,” Washington Post, October 1, 2021:

“Television is already moving to address racism—but will the effort last?,” Washington Post, June 11, 2020:

Daniel Widener, Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles (Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2010)

Allison Perlman, Public Interests: Media Advocacy and Struggles over U.S. Television (Rutgers University Press, 2016)

Elana Levine, Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007).

Elana Levine, Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020).

Ruth Feldstein, “I Wanted the Whole World to See"

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