The Female Teacher on Television
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The Female Teacher on Television

Shifting Stereotypes on the Small Screen

  1. 369 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Female Teacher on Television

Shifting Stereotypes on the Small Screen

About this book

This edited volume examines the ways in which the representation of female teachers on television has developed from the advent of the medium up to the present day. Despite the widely feminized nature of the teaching profession, the first depictions of female teachers on television did not occur until over a century later. Contributors analyze a variety of programs spanning time periods, audiences, and genre to provide insight into the past, present, and future trajectory of increasingly multidimensional portrayals of female teachers. Scholars of television, media, gender, women's, and cultural studies will find this book of particular interest.

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Yes, you can access The Female Teacher on Television by Rebecca Z. Grunzke,Andrew L. Grunzke in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Television History & Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Foreword from the Series Editors
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction
  11. Part I: From the Television Revolution to the Sexual Revolution
  12. Chapter 1: Our Miss Brooks: The Lead Teacher in Her Domestic Sphere
  13. Chapter 2: What Does It Mean to Be a (Working) Woman? : Television’s Female Teachers in 1950s and 1960s Situation Comedies
  14. Chapter 3: From Foundling Home to Maritime Mansion: The Reemergence of the Nineteenth-Century Governess in the Twentieth-Centu y Soap Opera Dark Shadows
  15. Part II: Animation Domination
  16. Chapter 4: “Glorified Babysitter”: Edna Krabappel as the Prototype for the Modern Teacher
  17. Chapter 5: Peggy Hill, Patriarchal Shill
  18. Chapter 6: “Western Civilization As We Know It Will Come to an End”: Female Teacher Tropes and Opposing Teaching Ideologies in Disney’s Recess
  19. Part III: Iconoclasm with a Purpose
  20. Chapter 7: “You’re Not Really My Children”: Teachers and the Attack on Public Education
  21. Chapter 8: Not Your Average Manic Pixie Teachers: An Analysis of Jocelyn from Schitt’s Creek and Jess from New Girl
  22. Chapter 9: “It’s a Calling. You Answered”: The Strong Black Woman as Savior Teacher in Abbott Elementary
  23. Part IV: The Case of Rita and the Transnational Teacher on Television
  24. Chapter 10: Rita: The “Naughty” Teacher
  25. Chapter 11: Rita: The “Good Teacher” Gets Real
  26. Part V: Afterword
  27. Chapter 12: What Hath Our Miss Brooks Wrought? The Future of Feminized Portrayals of Teachers: Female Embodiments of Artificial Intelligence
  28. Index
  29. About the Contributors