Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television

Elana Levine

Published by Duke University Press 2007

Wallowing in Sex

The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television

Elana Levine
Edited by: Lynn Spigel

In the series Console-ing passions: television and cultural power

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822389774

Overview
Contents

About this book

A cultural history of sexual content in television shows and TV advertising during the 1970s.

Author information

Elana Levine is Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Reviews

“Wallowing in Sex is important work: it pushes us to understand the institutional terrain of 1970s American television in the context of the sexual revolution and emergent feminist and gay liberation movements in a manner that no other scholarly work has done before.”—Tim J. Anderson, author of Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording

“Wallowing in Sex is a groundbreaking and important examination of television’s significant role in the increasingly sexualized culture of the 1970s. Painstakingly researched and smartly written, it is a crucial addition to the field of television history and, more generally, to the history of popular culture of the recent past. And if you grew up with 1970s television, Wallowing in Sex will make you look at the programming of the era in a thoroughly new light.”—Aniko Bodroghkozy, author of Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion

-- Mary E. Pagano Jump Cut

-- Hilary Radner Journal of American History

-- Frederik Dhaenens Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. KIDDIE PORN VERSUS ADULT PORN Inter-Network Competition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. NOT IN MY LIVING ROOM TV Sex That Wasn’t Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
3. THE SEX THREAT Regulating and Representing Sexually Endangered Youth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
4. SYMBOLS OF SEX Television’s Women and Sexual Difference Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
5. SEX WITH A LAUGH TRACK Sexuality and Television Humor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
6. FROM ROMANCE TO RAPE Sex, Violence, and Soap Operas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
CONCLUSION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 336
Illustrations
- Other: 29 b&w photos, 3 tables

eBook

Published: January 9, 2007
ISBN: 9780822389774