Grace and Frankie Open the Door: Dramedy, Netflix, and Small Screen Lily Tomlin
Kelly Kessler / DePaul University
Kelly Kessler considers Lily Tomlin’s unique televisual history.
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Kelly Kessler is an Associate Professor of Media and Cinema Studies at DePaul University. Her work largely engages with issues of gender and genre in American television and film. Her first book, Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical: Music, Masculinity, and Mayhem (2010, Palgrave) explores the gendered ramifications of the genre's shift in the latter part of the 20th century, and she is currently working on a history of the musical on US television, tentatively titled Broadway in the Box: Television’s Lasting Love Affair with the Musical (forthcoming, Oxford UP). Kessler recently edited an issue of Studies in Musical Theatre exploring the historical, gendered, racialized, and cross-mediated role of the diva. Her scholarship can also be found in Cinema Journal, Television and New Media, Journal of e-Media Studies, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Feminism at the Movies, and Televising Queer Women.
Grace and Frankie Open the Door: Dramedy, Netflix, and Small Screen Lily Tomlin
Failed Experiential Promises and the Bait-and-Switch of Fox’s Rent: Live
Kelly Kessler / DePaul University
Kelly Kessler analyzes the failed promise of Fox’s Rent Live and the limitations of televised theater without liveness and risk.
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Kelly Kessler / DePaul University
Kelly Kessler considers Playing House and the considerable labor performed by its creator/stars Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Claire to nurture the program’s content, advertisers, and fans.
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