Gender and Early Television
Gender and Early Television Between the nineteenth century and the mid-twentieth century television transformed from an idea to an institution. She argues that women played a crucial role in its…
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Gender and Early Television
Between the nineteenth century and the mid-twentieth century television transformed from an idea to an institution. She argues that women played a crucial role in its development both as producers and as audiences long before the 'golden age' of television in the 1950s.Beginning with the emergence of media entertainment in the mid-nineteenth century and culminating in the rise of the post-war television industries, Arnold claims that, all along the way, women had a stake in television. In Gender and Early Television, Sarah Arnold traces women's relationship to the new medium of television across this period in the UK and USA.
Women worked as directors, producers, technical crew and announcers. As keen consumers of media, women also helped promote television to the public by performing as 'television girls'. It seemed that television was open to women.
However, as Arnold