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Send us a Text Message.Our esteemed guest is Professor Carol Stabile, the author of The Broadcast 41, a profound exploration of the experiences of 41 remarkable women. These women, including some of the most prominent figures of their time: Dorothy Parker, Gypsy Rose Lee, Lena Horne, and screenwriter Vera Caspray, challenged the rigid norms of the American television and radio industry during the tumultuous 1950s 'Red Scare' period. Carol, a highly respected Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives for the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon brings her extensive academic background and expertise to her work. Along with Broadcast 41, Carol is the author of Feminism and the Technological Fix, White Victims, Black Villains: Gender, Race, and Crime News in US Culture, and other books.You can purchase The Broadcast 41 on Amazon.The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards sponsors the WRITERS' HANGOUT.Executive Producer Kristin OvernProducer Sandy AdomaitisProducer Terry SampsonMusic by Ethan Stoller
Advanced TV Herstory's commitment to connecting the dots of TV & feminism and American politics & culture continues with an examination of the pioneering women writers during the early days of TV. My guest, Annie Berke, PhD, is the author of Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television, part of the Feminist Media Histories book series by the University of California Press. With a focus on 1949-1963, Dr. Berke's foundational work appeals to scholars and students as well as others with an interest in gender roles, women in the workplace, and the cultural influence of women in media. Along with a review of under-studied and influential women writers profiled in the book, our discussion leads to some interesting places, including the emergence of second-wave feminism and how postwar and current-day writers share many of the same struggles. I know you'll enjoy this fun and fast-paced episode. Thank you for listening! CONNECT WITH ANNIE BERKE Website - https://www.annieberke.com/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/annie-berke-ph-d-a102509/ Instagram, X (Twitter), and Bluesky - @sayanniething RESOURCES Pioneer Peg Lynch - https://around.uoregon.edu/content/library-exhibit-celebrates-legacy-tv-pioneer-peg-lynch The Broadcast 41 by Carol A. Stabile - https://broadcast41.uoregon.edu/ CONNECT WITH CYNTHIA and ADVANCED TV HERSTORY ATVH Newsletter - https://cynthiabemisabrams.com/ Website - https://cynthiabemisabrams.com/ Podcast Archive - https://cynthiabemisabrams.com/advanced-tv-herstory Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/advancedtvherstory/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/tvherstory Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Media.Cynthia YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@advancedtvherstory/featured PRODUCTION Podcast Editing - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariloumarosz/ Music by Jahzzar - https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/
In 1989, Oprah Winfrey produced and starred in the two-part TV miniseries, The Women of Brewster Place, which was based on Gloria Naylor's award-winning debut novel. The book, and the movie, explore a variety of personal issues and social themes faced by seven African American women who live in an urban housing project. When, just for fun, we asked the new artificial intelligence software, ChatGPT, to connect Oprah's cultural influence with themes from the book/movie, the AI chatbot got it… sort of right. Sort of. It dispassionately summarized many of the challenges faced by the women in the story. And it mentioned Oprah's commitment to highlighting personal and social issues. But ChatGPT failed to find the essential storyline. And it's no wonder. The online content about The Women of Brewster Place neglects the underlying racism that's at work when urban planners and policymakers target the destruction of specific neighborhoods in the name of progress. As long as history is “written by the victors,” the online trough that feeds artificial intelligence will prevent AI, and the people who rely on it, from making the most crucial connections of all. MENTIONS AND REFERENCES We encourage you to visit your local bookseller or library. Book by Gloria Naylor - The Women of Brewster Place Movie on YouTube - The Women of Brewster Place People Magazine Article - Oprah Goes Hollywood Book by Carol Stabile, PhD - The Broadcast 41 Podcast Series (first of four) - Calculated Efforts to Preserve Power: TV Women Blacklisted Vulture Article - 30 Years Ago, The Women of Brewster Place Cracked Open the Door for Queer TV Vice Article - I've Made More Than 1,700 Wikipedia Entries on Women Scientists and I'm Not Yet Done CONNECT WITH CYNTHIA BEMIS ABRAMS and ADVANCED TV HERSTORY Website Podcasts Instagram Twitter Facebook YouTube
BONUS DISCUSSION: The 458th edition of "Relevant Or Irrelevant" welcomes Dr. Carol Stabile, professor and acting dean at The University Of Oregon. Dr. Stabile joins the "ROI" panelists to discuss: "The Broadcast 41: Women And The Anti-Communist Blacklist."Jay Swords is the host for episode 458. Rick Sweet and Brett Monnard are history buffs for this edition.This program is recorded at KALA-FM, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa, USA!
The 458th edition of "Relevant Or Irrelevant" welcomes Dr. Carol Stabile, professor and acting dean at The University Of Oregon. Dr. Stabile joins the "ROI" panelists to discuss: "The Broadcast 41: Women And The Anti-Communist Blacklist."Jay Swords is the host for episode 458. Rick Sweet and Brett Monnard are history buffs for this edition.This program is recorded at KALA-FM, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa, USA!
For the first act of this episode, we’ve paired Steve Vacchi’s performance of music by Jean-Daniel Braun with Carol Stabile, Interim Dean of the Clark Honors College. For the second act, we’ll hear some music and thoughts from special guest Mark Gould, former co-principal trumpet of the Metropolitan Opera. Finally, Sarah Viens brings it home with a familiar song for the moment. Orchestra Next wants to thank all of our musicians for hanging in there during this trying time. And we also wish to thank our supporters who have made this project possible. If you’d like to help support this project, please visit orchestranext.com.
Ryan Vogel of Utah Valley Univ on Russian bounties. Wayne Fournier, Mayor of Tenino, Washington, on wooden money. Bruce Bekkar, the Climate Action Campaign, on climate change & pregnancy. Brian Kalt of Michigan State Univ on the 6th amendment and the perfect crime. Erica Palmer of NeoNatal Rescue on a low cost ventilator. Carol Stabile of the Univ of Oregon on copaganda.
In this episode, I spoke with Roopika Risam, Associate Professor of English and the Faculty Fellow for Digital Library Initiatives at Salem State University. Dr. Risam’s research interests lie at the intersections of postcolonial and African diaspora studies, humanities knowledge infrastructures, digital humanities, and new media. Her book, New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2018. She is co-editing two volumes: Intersectionality in Digital Humanities with Barbara Bordalejo for Arc Humanities Press and The Digital Black Atlantic with Kelly Baker Josephs for the Debates in the Digital Humanities series (University of Minnesota Press). Along with Carol Stabile, she is co-director of Reanimate, an intersectional feminist publishing collective recovering archival writing by women in media activism. Her scholarship has appeared in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Digital Humanities Quarterly, Debates in the Digital Humanities, First Monday, Popular Communications, and College and Undergraduate Libraries, among others. In our conversation, we discussed the origins of her digital praxis and how her vision for digital humanities animate the projects she pursues and her persona as a public intellectual.
This 4 episode series examines anti-communism/McCarthy-ism blacklisting 's impact on the careers of women who likely would have changed the look, depth and sound of TV. Cynthia and author/scholar, Dr. Charlene Regester of Univ. of North Carolina have a frank conversation about how racism, stereotyped roles and Jim Crow laws delayed TV's depiction of African American life by more than a decade. This adds to the story of a previous podcast episode about TV's Single Women and how even in the 1980s, a TV series cast a black woman as a household domestic. Charlene Regester (2010) African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility 1900-1960 Regester on North Caroline PBS discussing her book Carol Stabile (2018) The Broadcast 41: Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist James Gavin (2010) Stormy Weather, The Life of Lena Horne Advanced TV Herstory TV's Single Woman Caregivers & Gimme a Break YouTube The Beulah Show (feat. Ethel Waters) Audio archives of The Beulah Show
Peg Lynch was on TV around the same time as Lucille Ball. But despite being one of the early pioneers of women creating, writing, and starring in TV sitcoms, Lynch just may be just the most famous woman in television history you’ve never heard of. An exhibit at the University of Oregon tells her story and we hear about her — and other unsung women in broadcast history — from University of Oregon professor Carol Stabile and Cynthia Bemis Abrams, host of the “Advanced TV Herstory” podcast.
An American Icons segment about “The Searchers,” John Ford’s problematic masterpiece featuring John Wayne. Kurt Andersen talks with Carol Stabile about an aspect of the Red Scare that’s received scant attention: the 41 women who were blacklisted from radio and television. And how Mariame Kaba, a prison activist who’s black and Muslim, falls hard for something very white and very Christian: Hallmark Christmas movies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
An American Icons segment about “The Searchers,” John Ford’s problematic masterpiece featuring John Wayne. Kurt Andersen talks with Carol Stabile about an aspect of the Red Scare that’s received scant attention: the 41 women who were blacklisted from radio and television. And how Mariame Kaba, a prison activist who’s black and Muslim, falls hard for something very white and very Christian: Hallmark Christmas movies. This episode is brought to you by Helix, a new kind of DNA testing. Try today for a deep discount at helix.com/studio360. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices