Kathleen Feeley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1056338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen Feeley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Feeley |
| SIGNATURE | FEELEY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Redlands |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy
In Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy, Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley offers not a biography of Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky in 1894)—one of the leading mid-twentieth-century American intermedia performers, editors, and producers—but a deeply researched and powerfully argued analysis of Benny's persona, productions, distribution, advertising, and sponsorship from the early 1930s through the late 1950s. Fuller-Seeley not only a…
The antithesis of the film magnate’
As a powerful, high-profile member of Los Angeles’ Jewish and German-American communities and a founder of MGM, the native-born, middle-class Irving Thalberg was framed as a ‘better, finer’ Jew as compared to his older, immigrant, US film industry mentors. This essay sheds new light on Thalberg’s hybrid identity as German-Jewish-American, asking how it shaped his life, work, popular persona, and memory. As MGM production chief, Thalberg’s work in…
Gossip as News
Scholars over the last half‐century have begun to explore how gossip – spoken, printed, broadcast, or blogged – can serve to challenge, support, and/or reflect social, cultural, and political norms and ideals. Of particular interest here is how gossip, as amplified by the 20th‐ and 21st‐century mass media, has transformed journalistic practice and the nature of public life in the United States. In the last decade, scholarship on the history of U.…
Universal Women
Using Universal Film Manufacturing Company as a case study in institutional history and practice, Mark Garrett Cooper asks how and why did at least a dozen women gain access to the director's chair at Universal over the 1910s only to be excluded by the end of the decade, leaving Lois Weber the only working female director at Universal from 1920 until 1982. In Universal Women, Cooper, by exploring how gender and genre formation operated at Univers…
Mary Pickford
pbs's American Experience producers have done a great service for teachers, scholars, and the viewing public by bringing Mary Pickford—a biography of one of the most significant actresses, producers, and icons in the U.S. silent film era—to the small screen. This documentary ably covers the story of Pickford's life from her humble origins as Gladys Smith, a young actress (and family breadwinner) in regional theater to Mary Pickford, Broadway ingé…
Flannery O'Connor
Gossip as News
Scholars over the last half‐century have begun to explore how gossip – spoken, printed, broadcast, or blogged – can serve to challenge, support, and/or reflect social, cultural, and political norms and ideals. Of particular interest here is how gossip, as amplified by the 20th‐ and 21st‐century mass media, has transformed journalistic practice and the nature of public life in the United States. In the last decade, scholarship on the history of U.…
Flannery O'Connor
Mary Pickford
pbs's American Experience producers have done a great service for teachers, scholars, and the viewing public by bringing Mary Pickford—a biography of one of the most significant actresses, producers, and icons in the U.S. silent film era—to the small screen. This documentary ably covers the story of Pickford's life from her humble origins as Gladys Smith, a young actress (and family breadwinner) in regional theater to Mary Pickford, Broadway ingé…
Universal Women
Using Universal Film Manufacturing Company as a case study in institutional history and practice, Mark Garrett Cooper asks how and why did at least a dozen women gain access to the director's chair at Universal over the 1910s only to be excluded by the end of the decade, leaving Lois Weber the only working female director at Universal from 1920 until 1982. In Universal Women, Cooper, by exploring how gender and genre formation operated at Univers…
Gossip as News
Scholars over the last half‐century have begun to explore how gossip – spoken, printed, broadcast, or blogged – can serve to challenge, support, and/or reflect social, cultural, and political norms and ideals. Of particular interest here is how gossip, as amplified by the 20th‐ and 21st‐century mass media, has transformed journalistic practice and the nature of public life in the United States. In the last decade, scholarship on the history of U.…
The antithesis of the film magnate’
As a powerful, high-profile member of Los Angeles’ Jewish and German-American communities and a founder of MGM, the native-born, middle-class Irving Thalberg was framed as a ‘better, finer’ Jew as compared to his older, immigrant, US film industry mentors. This essay sheds new light on Thalberg’s hybrid identity as German-Jewish-American, asking how it shaped his life, work, popular persona, and memory. As MGM production chief, Thalberg’s work in…
Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy
In Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy, Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley offers not a biography of Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky in 1894)—one of the leading mid-twentieth-century American intermedia performers, editors, and producers—but a deeply researched and powerfully argued analysis of Benny's persona, productions, distribution, advertising, and sponsorship from the early 1930s through the late 1950s. Fuller-Seeley not only a…
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