Mimi White
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mimi White |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mimi |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Genetic affect, as seen on TV
Scientific affiliation in reality-based media
A house divided
HGTV (Home and Garden Television) is an American cable channel devoted to property TV, with programs that combine lifestyle and reality, demonstrating the rewards of home investments. Despite the focus on domestic property and the well-styled home, the programs are generally considered bland, and the cumulative impact of the network’s simple, formulaic programs is considered relaxing and even comforting. But some HGTV programs prominently feature…
After the Break
Gender Territories
House Hunters is an American lifestyle TV program that focuses on home buying. Across episodes, the program represents a wide range of buyers—singles and couples, married and not, with and without children, gay and straight, young and old. Families are often multiracial, multiethnic, or international. The program mobilizes diverse buyers, budgets, and locations, representing the American domestic real estate market in terms of variety and differe…
Questions of Method in Cultural Studies
Innovating Women's Television in Local and National Networks
Marsha Cassidy teaches media studies and literature in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her writings have appeared in a number of scholarly journals. Her current research investigates from a feminist perspective a range of popular genres that predated soap opera on 1950s daytime television.Mimi White is professor of radio/TV/film at Northwestern University. She is author of Tele-Advising: Therapeutic Discourse i…
Playing on TV
Journal Article Playing on TV Get access Mimi White Mimi White 1Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 44, Issue 1, March 1994, Pages 117–121, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1994.tb00669.x Published: 07 February 2006
Television
Representing Romance
A number of Hollywood films from the mid-1980s feature women as central characters in variations on the romance-adventure genre. In different ways these films engage recognized fantasy scenarios-women's fantasy scenarios-as a crucial agency of romantic adventure. This relationship is figured through the narrative prominence of a textual model serving as the basis for, and measure of, the fictional trajectory assumed by each film. The most obvious…
Crossing Wavelengths
The continuity and multiplicity of texts that comprise the medium of American television present the critic-analyst with a complex, multiform body of material. To analyze requires an operation of segmentation, fragmentation isolating a discrete sequence from the course of the flow of television programming according to a critical principle of pertinence. In this vein an array of strategies borrowed variously from textual analysis and/or the indus…
National Conference of the Society for cinema Studies New York University, June 12–15, 1985
Session: Television and Consumption Session: Representation as Subject Construction: The Comparative Study of National Cinemas Session: Marginal Cinemas and Mainstream Critical Theory Session: Issues of Gender Session: Reality and/as Spectacle: Theoretical and Critical Perspectives on Nonfiction TV Session: Sexuality and Madness in the Hollywood Cinema Session: Pleasurable and Unpleasurable Texts
Exploring What We Take for Granted
Interview| December 01 1984 Exploring What We Take for Granted: An Interview with Michelle Citron What You Take for Granted by Michelle Citron distributed by Iris Films Box 5353, Berkeley, Calif. 94705 Mimi White, Mimi White Mimi White, assistant professor of radio-TV-film at Northwestern University, has written on historical narrative film, French dada films, video art, and American commercial television. Search for other works by this author on…
Crossing Wavelengths
The continuity and multiplicity of texts that comprise the medium of American television present the critic-analyst with a complex, multiform body of material. To analyze requires an operation of segmentation, fragmentation isolating a discrete sequence from the course of the flow of television programming according to a critical principle of pertinence. In this vein an array of strategies borrowed variously from textual analysis and/or the indus…
Gender Territories
House Hunters is an American lifestyle TV program that focuses on home buying. Across episodes, the program represents a wide range of buyers—singles and couples, married and not, with and without children, gay and straight, young and old. Families are often multiracial, multiethnic, or international. The program mobilizes diverse buyers, budgets, and locations, representing the American domestic real estate market in terms of variety and differe…
Innovating Women's Television in Local and National Networks
Marsha Cassidy teaches media studies and literature in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her writings have appeared in a number of scholarly journals. Her current research investigates from a feminist perspective a range of popular genres that predated soap opera on 1950s daytime television.Mimi White is professor of radio/TV/film at Northwestern University. She is author of Tele-Advising: Therapeutic Discourse i…
A house divided
HGTV (Home and Garden Television) is an American cable channel devoted to property TV, with programs that combine lifestyle and reality, demonstrating the rewards of home investments. Despite the focus on domestic property and the well-styled home, the programs are generally considered bland, and the cumulative impact of the network’s simple, formulaic programs is considered relaxing and even comforting. But some HGTV programs prominently feature…
Representing Romance
A number of Hollywood films from the mid-1980s feature women as central characters in variations on the romance-adventure genre. In different ways these films engage recognized fantasy scenarios-women's fantasy scenarios-as a crucial agency of romantic adventure. This relationship is figured through the narrative prominence of a textual model serving as the basis for, and measure of, the fictional trajectory assumed by each film. The most obvious…
Exploring What We Take for Granted
Interview| December 01 1984 Exploring What We Take for Granted: An Interview with Michelle Citron What You Take for Granted by Michelle Citron distributed by Iris Films Box 5353, Berkeley, Calif. 94705 Mimi White, Mimi White Mimi White, assistant professor of radio-TV-film at Northwestern University, has written on historical narrative film, French dada films, video art, and American commercial television. Search for other works by this author on…
National Conference of the Society for cinema Studies New York University, June 12–15, 1985
Session: Television and Consumption Session: Representation as Subject Construction: The Comparative Study of National Cinemas Session: Marginal Cinemas and Mainstream Critical Theory Session: Issues of Gender Session: Reality and/as Spectacle: Theoretical and Critical Perspectives on Nonfiction TV Session: Sexuality and Madness in the Hollywood Cinema Session: Pleasurable and Unpleasurable Texts
Crossing Wavelengths
The continuity and multiplicity of texts that comprise the medium of American television present the critic-analyst with a complex, multiform body of material. To analyze requires an operation of segmentation, fragmentation isolating a discrete sequence from the course of the flow of television programming according to a critical principle of pertinence. In this vein an array of strategies borrowed variously from textual analysis and/or the indus…
Television
Representing Romance
A number of Hollywood films from the mid-1980s feature women as central characters in variations on the romance-adventure genre. In different ways these films engage recognized fantasy scenarios-women's fantasy scenarios-as a crucial agency of romantic adventure. This relationship is figured through the narrative prominence of a textual model serving as the basis for, and measure of, the fictional trajectory assumed by each film. The most obvious…
Playing on TV
Journal Article Playing on TV Get access Mimi White Mimi White 1Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 44, Issue 1, March 1994, Pages 117–121, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1994.tb00669.x Published: 07 February 2006
Innovating Women's Television in Local and National Networks
Marsha Cassidy teaches media studies and literature in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her writings have appeared in a number of scholarly journals. Her current research investigates from a feminist perspective a range of popular genres that predated soap opera on 1950s daytime television.Mimi White is professor of radio/TV/film at Northwestern University. She is author of Tele-Advising: Therapeutic Discourse i…
Questions of Method in Cultural Studies
Gender Territories
House Hunters is an American lifestyle TV program that focuses on home buying. Across episodes, the program represents a wide range of buyers—singles and couples, married and not, with and without children, gay and straight, young and old. Families are often multiracial, multiethnic, or international. The program mobilizes diverse buyers, budgets, and locations, representing the American domestic real estate market in terms of variety and differe…
After the Break
A house divided
HGTV (Home and Garden Television) is an American cable channel devoted to property TV, with programs that combine lifestyle and reality, demonstrating the rewards of home investments. Despite the focus on domestic property and the well-styled home, the programs are generally considered bland, and the cumulative impact of the network’s simple, formulaic programs is considered relaxing and even comforting. But some HGTV programs prominently feature…
Genetic affect, as seen on TV
Scientific affiliation in reality-based media
Sociology (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Media Studies and Communication (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Advertising (4 works) · Art history (4 works) · Law (4 works)