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Week 3: Genre and Gender (What is a genre? (NEED FOR GENRE (Industry/TV…

- - - - mid 1970s: teen-oriented sitcoms
        
        1980s: wholesome family sitcoms
        
        mid/late 1990s and early 2000s: sitcoms around friends
        
        sitcoms without laugh track: early 2000s
- - - - taste works to REPRODUCE and PRODUCE social systems and hierarchies
- - - - moments of emotive disclosures are "unscripted" but include conffessions
        
        calculated exhibition of feelings through bodily registers (facial expression, tone of voice, appearance)
      - Bravo shows have a knack for flattering viewers' sense of their own good taste
        
        judging fashion designs on the runway
        
        scrutinizing the women on the "Housewives" series for fashion faux pas
    - - makeover tv
      - transformational tv
      - talent tv
- - - - Women's Libertarian Movement in late 60s/early 70s: female leads in TV could no longer be contained in domestic roles
        
        "MTM show"
        
        workplace sitcom/domestic sitcom
        
        Mary was single and independent, pursuing a career in media
        
        BUT the show still constrained her through sitcom genre conventions and patriarchal relationships
        
        Hegemonic devices that contradict the MTM show's progressive, feminist premise
        
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        Implications/futures
        
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        "I Love Lucy": Containment/Resistance
      - Hegemony: TV adjusts to social change by absorbing it into forms compatible with the core ideological structure