Cynthia Bemis Abrams

Advanced TV Herstory

Tv EN ↓ 178 episodes

Connect the dots of TV and feminism to American culture and politics with host Cynthia Bemis Abrams. Interviews with top names - in front of and behind the scenes - offer insights into TV that has shaped American culture and influenced the world. Check out episodes featuring interviews with women in television like Annie Potts, Margaret Cho and Kim Fields, TV directors, showrunners and writers, as well as academics and authors. Television veteran writers Georgia Jeffries, Victoria Riskin and April Smith are featured in episodes that explain storytelling as a writing craft. These discussions wi...

Author

Cynthia Bemis Abrams

Episodes

Sports Night: Mentoring and Leadership in the Newsroom 07.07.2015 25:49

Host Cynthia Bemis Abrams takes a feminist deep dive into Sports Night, Aaron Sorkin's fast-paced workplace comedy that lasted just two seasons. The series, starring Felicity Huffman, Josh Charles, Peter Krause, and Robert Guillaume, explored the power of mentorship in a high-pressure newsroom environment. This episode examines how strong, multi-layered mentor-mentee relationships shaped the show'...

Basic TV Herstory 01.07.2015 13:15

Join lifelong TV fan, feminist, communicator and now, podcast host Cynthia Bemis Abrams as she creates expectation and backstory for developing Advanced TV Herstory . Cynthia explains her initial mission and focus from Summer 2015. As we now know it as representation, in 2015 Cynthia was explaining the power of seeing five generations of American women depicted in TV and how each generation has be...

Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977-1979) 25.06.2015 23:54

In this inaugural episode of Advanced TV Herstory host Cynthia Bemis Abrams revisits The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries on Sunday nights that aired 1977-79. She shares the background of the woman writer of teen fiction in the 1930s, the stringent standards placed on the girl detective character and Warner Brothers studio's attempt to put Nancy Drew on the silver screen. Cynthia ices the under-pro...