Elana Levine
Biographic Data
| ID | 3688007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elana Levine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elana |
| FAMILY NAME | Levine |
| SIGNATURE | LEVINE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8420-4216 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Silly Women’s Stories?: The Foundational Role of the Daytime Radio Serial
The daytime radio serial is a foundational form of US broadcasting at the crux of the economic and cultural functions of commercial, network radio and is strongly connected to conceptions of gender identity in twentieth-century American society. This chapter examines the place of the daytime radio serial in the business practices and economic structures of the broadcasting industry and the American consumer economy, in the scripted storytelling p…
Slow scholarship? Cultural studies and television historiography
Levine discusses the research and writing of her 2020 book, Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History, considering whether the long duration of the project qualifies it as “slow scholarship.” Within this context, she examines the slow scholarship movement and the ways that slowness may function as an interventionist practice. As well, she considers the ways that cultural studies benefits from an embrace of slowness, in particular …
The Aesthetics of Nostalgia TV: Production Design and the Boomer Era
Attending to creative labor, meanings of the visual, and discourses of nostalgia, Alex Bevan, lecturer in the School of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland, Australia, brings a m
The Angel in the Marketplace: Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America
With a career that peaked amid the mid-twentieth-century retrenchment of gender roles and boom in consumer markets, adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub provides a lens for understanding the alignment of conventional domesticity, free-market capitalism, and religious conservatism in the United States. Ellen Wayland-Smith historicizes these forces through the life and career of Rindlaub, emphasizing that present-day conceptions of progressive, midcentury ad…
Saving New Sounds: Podcast Preservation and Historiography
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
Melodrama and Soap Opera
Feminist film and television studies shared a crucial period of development in the late 1970s and early 1980s, taking shape into influential fields and helping to establish central questions for media scholarship that would carry through to the twenty-first century. Laura Mulvey's mid-1970s theorization of male spectatorship revolutionized the field, but left many feminist scholars wondering about female spectatorship, specifically the potential …
Love in the Afternoon: The Supercouple of 1980s US Daytime Soap Opera
In the 1980s, the afternoon soap operas of US broadcast television featured 'supercouples', romantic pairings that both kept with conventional gender roles and defied traditional expectations. These stories brought a broadened audience to daytime soap opera and made the genre especially profitable for the television networks. They also helped to address viewers' uncertainties about a world changed by the women's liberation movement, embracing the…
Legitimating Television
Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining a new level of cultural respectability in the 21st century. Once looked down upon as a "plug-in drug" offering little redeeming social or artistic value, television is now said to be in a creative renaissance, with critics hailing the rise of Quality series such as Mad Men and 30 Rock. Likewise, DVDs and DVRs, web video, HDTV, and mobile devi…
Teaching the Politics of Television Culture in a “Post-television” Era
Teaching the Politics of Television Culture in a "Post-television" Era Elana Levine (bio) Television has changed dramatically in recent years. As the very existence of this In Focus makes clear, the shifts in television economics and technology, as well as in the medium's social and cultural roles, have made it increasingly difficult to study or teach television as a unified object, even within a single national context. As many have noted, in th…
Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status
Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining a new level of cultural respectability in the 21st century. Once looked down upon as a plug-in drug offering little redeeming social or artistic value, television is now said to be in a creative renaissance, with critics hailing the rise of Quality series such as Mad Men and 30 Rock. Likewise, DVDs and DVRs, web video, HDTV, and mobile device…
Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers: Redefining Feminism on Screen
Journal Article Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers: Redefining Feminism on Screen Get access Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers: Redefining Feminism on Screen. By Kathleen Rowe Karlyn. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. xii, 308 pp. $55.00, ISBN978-0-292-71833-3.) Elana Levine Elana Levine University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal o…
National television, global market: Canada's Degrassi: The Next Generation
The tension between heterogeneity and homogeneity, specificity and univer-sality, has become the central problematic of global media culture (Appadurai, 1996: 32). While media scholars have largely discounted claims of total cultural homogenization by examining vibrant local production and reception contexts, the threat of a universal – usually Americanized – cultural coloniza-tion continues to operate in tension with those localizing forces.As o…
Remaking Charlie's Angels: The construction of post-feminist hegemony
From their initial appearance on US broadcast network television in the mid-1970s to their feature film incarnations in 2000 and 2003, the characters known as Charlie's Angels have been at the center of American popular culture's negotiations over feminism, femininity, and the relationship between the two. This article analyzes the “remaking” of Charlie's Angels over the past 30 years as a means of considering the “remaking” of discourses of femi…
Distinguishing television: The Changing Meanings of Television Liveness
Fractured Fairy Tales and Fragmented Markets: Disney’s Weddings of a Lifetime and the Cultural Politics of Media Conglomeration
This article analyzes the institutional and textual features of a Lifetime Television series called Weddings of a Lifetime. It argues that the synergistic melding of Disney, ABC, and Lifetime in Weddings of a Lifetime not only typifies media industry strategies in an age of conglomeration but also evidences the complex textual meanings produced through such institutional practices. In this case, Disney’s cross-promotional efforts at once bolster …
Toward a paradigm for media production research: Behind the scenes at general hospital
This essay points to the dearth of media production studies conducted under the cultural studies rubric and calk for cultural studies of media production that fulfill the models of cultural circulation theorized by Stuart Hall and Richard Johnson. It argues that such a perspective must include analyses of both economic and discursive power. It presents five factors shaping the production process of a U.S. broadcast television network soap opera a…
Legitimating Television
Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining a new level of cultural respectability in the 21st century. Once looked down upon as a "plug-in drug" offering little redeeming social or artistic value, television is now said to be in a creative renaissance, with critics hailing the rise of Quality series such as Mad Men and 30 Rock. Likewise, DVDs and DVRs, web video, HDTV, and mobile devi…
Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status
Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining a new level of cultural respectability in the 21st century. Once looked down upon as a plug-in drug offering little redeeming social or artistic value, television is now said to be in a creative renaissance, with critics hailing the rise of Quality series such as Mad Men and 30 Rock. Likewise, DVDs and DVRs, web video, HDTV, and mobile device…
Distinguishing television: The Changing Meanings of Television Liveness
Toward a paradigm for media production research: Behind the scenes at general hospital
This essay points to the dearth of media production studies conducted under the cultural studies rubric and calk for cultural studies of media production that fulfill the models of cultural circulation theorized by Stuart Hall and Richard Johnson. It argues that such a perspective must include analyses of both economic and discursive power. It presents five factors shaping the production process of a U.S. broadcast television network soap opera a…
Fractured Fairy Tales and Fragmented Markets: Disney’s Weddings of a Lifetime and the Cultural Politics of Media Conglomeration
This article analyzes the institutional and textual features of a Lifetime Television series called Weddings of a Lifetime. It argues that the synergistic melding of Disney, ABC, and Lifetime in Weddings of a Lifetime not only typifies media industry strategies in an age of conglomeration but also evidences the complex textual meanings produced through such institutional practices. In this case, Disney’s cross-promotional efforts at once bolster …
Teaching the Politics of Television Culture in a “Post-television” Era
Teaching the Politics of Television Culture in a "Post-television" Era Elana Levine (bio) Television has changed dramatically in recent years. As the very existence of this In Focus makes clear, the shifts in television economics and technology, as well as in the medium's social and cultural roles, have made it increasingly difficult to study or teach television as a unified object, even within a single national context. As many have noted, in th…
National television, global market: Canada's Degrassi: The Next Generation
The tension between heterogeneity and homogeneity, specificity and univer-sality, has become the central problematic of global media culture (Appadurai, 1996: 32). While media scholars have largely discounted claims of total cultural homogenization by examining vibrant local production and reception contexts, the threat of a universal – usually Americanized – cultural coloniza-tion continues to operate in tension with those localizing forces.As o…
Remaking Charlie's Angels: The construction of post-feminist hegemony
From their initial appearance on US broadcast network television in the mid-1970s to their feature film incarnations in 2000 and 2003, the characters known as Charlie's Angels have been at the center of American popular culture's negotiations over feminism, femininity, and the relationship between the two. This article analyzes the “remaking” of Charlie's Angels over the past 30 years as a means of considering the “remaking” of discourses of femi…
Saving New Sounds: Podcast Preservation and Historiography
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers: Redefining Feminism on Screen
Journal Article Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers: Redefining Feminism on Screen Get access Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers: Redefining Feminism on Screen. By Kathleen Rowe Karlyn. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. xii, 308 pp. $55.00, ISBN978-0-292-71833-3.) Elana Levine Elana Levine University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal o…
Toward a paradigm for media production research: Behind the scenes at general hospital
This essay points to the dearth of media production studies conducted under the cultural studies rubric and calk for cultural studies of media production that fulfill the models of cultural circulation theorized by Stuart Hall and Richard Johnson. It argues that such a perspective must include analyses of both economic and discursive power. It presents five factors shaping the production process of a U.S. broadcast television network soap opera a…
Fractured Fairy Tales and Fragmented Markets: Disney’s Weddings of a Lifetime and the Cultural Politics of Media Conglomeration
This article analyzes the institutional and textual features of a Lifetime Television series called Weddings of a Lifetime. It argues that the synergistic melding of Disney, ABC, and Lifetime in Weddings of a Lifetime not only typifies media industry strategies in an age of conglomeration but also evidences the complex textual meanings produced through such institutional practices. In this case, Disney’s cross-promotional efforts at once bolster …
Remaking Charlie's Angels: The construction of post-feminist hegemony
From their initial appearance on US broadcast network television in the mid-1970s to their feature film incarnations in 2000 and 2003, the characters known as Charlie's Angels have been at the center of American popular culture's negotiations over feminism, femininity, and the relationship between the two. This article analyzes the “remaking” of Charlie's Angels over the past 30 years as a means of considering the “remaking” of discourses of femi…
Distinguishing television: The Changing Meanings of Television Liveness
National television, global market: Canada's Degrassi: The Next Generation
The tension between heterogeneity and homogeneity, specificity and univer-sality, has become the central problematic of global media culture (Appadurai, 1996: 32). While media scholars have largely discounted claims of total cultural homogenization by examining vibrant local production and reception contexts, the threat of a universal – usually Americanized – cultural coloniza-tion continues to operate in tension with those localizing forces.As o…
Teaching the Politics of Television Culture in a “Post-television” Era
Teaching the Politics of Television Culture in a "Post-television" Era Elana Levine (bio) Television has changed dramatically in recent years. As the very existence of this In Focus makes clear, the shifts in television economics and technology, as well as in the medium's social and cultural roles, have made it increasingly difficult to study or teach television as a unified object, even within a single national context. As many have noted, in th…
Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status
Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining a new level of cultural respectability in the 21st century. Once looked down upon as a plug-in drug offering little redeeming social or artistic value, television is now said to be in a creative renaissance, with critics hailing the rise of Quality series such as Mad Men and 30 Rock. Likewise, DVDs and DVRs, web video, HDTV, and mobile device…
Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers: Redefining Feminism on Screen
Journal Article Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers: Redefining Feminism on Screen Get access Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers: Redefining Feminism on Screen. By Kathleen Rowe Karlyn. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. xii, 308 pp. $55.00, ISBN978-0-292-71833-3.) Elana Levine Elana Levine University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal o…
Legitimating Television
Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining a new level of cultural respectability in the 21st century. Once looked down upon as a "plug-in drug" offering little redeeming social or artistic value, television is now said to be in a creative renaissance, with critics hailing the rise of Quality series such as Mad Men and 30 Rock. Likewise, DVDs and DVRs, web video, HDTV, and mobile devi…
Love in the Afternoon: The Supercouple of 1980s US Daytime Soap Opera
In the 1980s, the afternoon soap operas of US broadcast television featured 'supercouples', romantic pairings that both kept with conventional gender roles and defied traditional expectations. These stories brought a broadened audience to daytime soap opera and made the genre especially profitable for the television networks. They also helped to address viewers' uncertainties about a world changed by the women's liberation movement, embracing the…
Melodrama and Soap Opera
Feminist film and television studies shared a crucial period of development in the late 1970s and early 1980s, taking shape into influential fields and helping to establish central questions for media scholarship that would carry through to the twenty-first century. Laura Mulvey's mid-1970s theorization of male spectatorship revolutionized the field, but left many feminist scholars wondering about female spectatorship, specifically the potential …
Saving New Sounds: Podcast Preservation and Historiography
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
The Aesthetics of Nostalgia TV: Production Design and the Boomer Era
Attending to creative labor, meanings of the visual, and discourses of nostalgia, Alex Bevan, lecturer in the School of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland, Australia, brings a m
The Angel in the Marketplace: Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America
With a career that peaked amid the mid-twentieth-century retrenchment of gender roles and boom in consumer markets, adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub provides a lens for understanding the alignment of conventional domesticity, free-market capitalism, and religious conservatism in the United States. Ellen Wayland-Smith historicizes these forces through the life and career of Rindlaub, emphasizing that present-day conceptions of progressive, midcentury ad…
Slow scholarship? Cultural studies and television historiography
Levine discusses the research and writing of her 2020 book, Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History, considering whether the long duration of the project qualifies it as “slow scholarship.” Within this context, she examines the slow scholarship movement and the ways that slowness may function as an interventionist practice. As well, she considers the ways that cultural studies benefits from an embrace of slowness, in particular …
Silly Women’s Stories?: The Foundational Role of the Daytime Radio Serial
The daytime radio serial is a foundational form of US broadcasting at the crux of the economic and cultural functions of commercial, network radio and is strongly connected to conceptions of gender identity in twentieth-century American society. This chapter examines the place of the daytime radio serial in the business practices and economic structures of the broadcasting industry and the American consumer economy, in the scripted storytelling p…
Sociology (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Media Studies and Communication (9 works) · Media studies (8 works) · History (7 works) · Advertising (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works)