Volume 39, no. 2
Summer 1998

Special Issue: TV and American Culture

Introduction

David M. Katzman

"Do I Look Like a Chick?": Men, Women, and Babies on Sitcom Maternity Stories
Judy Kutula

Race, Gender, and the American Mother: Political Speech and the Maternity Episodes of I Love Lucy and Murphy Brown
Jude Davies and Carol R. Smith

Mediadoption--Chidlren, Commodification, and the Spectacle of Disruption
Danae Clark


The Personal is Professional on TV
Introduction
Charlie Bertsch, Gillian Epstein, Annalee Newitz, and Jillian Sandell

ER, Professionals, and the Work-Family Disaster
Annalee Newitz

"The Professional is Paranormal": Professional Labor on The X-Files
Charlie Bertsch

Crafting the Politics of "Special Space": 90210's Scripting of Media Enjoyment in the Private Sphere
Gillian Epstein

I'll Be There for You: Friends and the Fantasy of Alternative Families
Jillian Sandell

Heartbreak Hotel: MTV's The Real World, III, and the Narratives of Containment
Shantanu Duttan Ahmed

"Dear Radio Friend": Listener Mail and the National Barn Dance, 1931-1941
Kristine M. McCusker