Bio and C.V.

Teaching

Research

Links

 

Blog: News for TV Majors

 

Published Book

It’s the Pictures That Got Small:
Hollywood Film Stars on Fifties Television

(Wesleyan University Press, 2008)

 

Articles & Book Chapters

“Paul Newman, Superstardom and Anti-Stardom,” in New Constellations: Movie Stars of the 1960s (Rutgers, 2011)

“Clark Gable: The King of Hollywood,” in Glamour in a Golden Age: Movie Stars of the 1930s (Rutgers, 2011)

"Acting for the Cameras: Performance
in the Multi-Camera Sitcom
"
Mediascape, Summer 2008

“From High Culture to Hip Culture:
The Transformation of the BBC Into BBC America”
Mark Hampton and Joel Wiener, eds.
Anglo-American Media Interactions
( Palgrave Macmillan Press, August 2007)

“Televising Film Stardom in the 1950s,”
Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media
(vol. 46 no. 2: Fall 2005): 5-21

“Glamour Girl Classed as TV Show Brain:
The Body and Mind of Faye Emerson”

Journal of Popular Culture
(vol. 4 no. 2: Summer 2004): 242- 260

“A Syndicated Show in a Network World:
Frederic Ziv’s Favorite Story”

Journal of Radio Studies
(Summer 2001): 160-174

 

Selected Online Publications

Posts at Antenna

Posts at In Media Res

News for TV Majors Blog

 

Selected Reviews, Essays,
& Conference Papers

Review of Thomas Doherty, Cold War, Cool Medium:
Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture

(New York: Columbia University Press, 2003)

Review of Emanuel Levy, Cinema of Outsiders:
The Rise of American Independent Film

(New York and London: New York University Press, 1999)


"'Real' Misery"

Scholastic vol. 144 no. 7 (December 5, 2002): 32

“Big Stars on the Small Screen”
Lecture delivered at Northern Indiana Center for History
South Bend, IN, March 13, 2005

"From Programme to Program:
A Narrative Study of Recent
British Television and American Remakes"
Paper delivered at Society For Cinema
and Media Studies Conference
London, England, April 2, 2005

"Avids Versus Steenbecks:
Do Film Schools Still Need Film?"

Workshop presentation delivered at
Society For Cinema and Media Studies Conference
Minneapolis, MN, March 2003

 

 

 

Christine Becker
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Notre Dame, IN 46556
574-631-7592
becker.34@nd.edu