TV at the Pollock: Gender, Work and the Sitcom Family

4/27/2020; 41 minutes

Costumes in Father Knows Best, workplace harassment in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and queer parenthood in Modern Family all arise in this conversation between professor Elana Levine (UW-Milwaukee) and Aleah Kiley (UCSB) about evolving representations of gender, work, and the sitcom family. In this video, Levine and Kiley discuss links between three iconic shows and the changing cultures in which they were broadcast. Recorded on 02/13/2020. (#35765)

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