Jennifer S. Clark

PhD Critical Studies, Cinema - Television, University of Southern California

Prof. Clark is interested in television production cultures, television history, gender studies, female stardom and celebrity, and representations of masculinity and emotion.

Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women’s Liberation. Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming February 2024.

“‘Feminist Borers from Within’: The CBS Women’s Advisory Council and Media Workplace Reform in the 1970s.” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 63.1 (Fall 2023): 10-29. 

“Reclaiming Single Women’s Work: Gender, Melodrama, and the Processes of Adaptation in The Best of Everything” in Single Lives: Modern Women in Literature, Culture, and Film, edited by Katherine Fama and Jorie Lagerwey, 28-47. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022.

“From Stripping on Broadway to Knitting on TV: Gypsy Rose Lee’s Adaptable Labors.” Feminist Media Histories 2.4 (2016): 143-168.

“Queen for a Day: Representation, Materiality, and Gender in Elizabeth II’s Televised Coronation.” Journal of e-Media Studies 4.1 (2015).

"Post Feminist Masculinity and the Complex Politics of Time: Contemporary Quality Television Imagines a Pre-Feminist World." New Review of Film and Television Studies 12.4 (December 2014): 445-462. 

“Liberating Bi-Centennial America: Imagining the Nation through TV Superwomen of the Seventies.” Television & New Media 10.5 (September 2009): 434-454.

• Understanding Film
• Understanding Television
• Film Stardom
• Film Theory and Criticism
• Fashion and Costuming in Film
• Fashioning Britain
• British Heritage Cinema
• Film and Gender
• Theories of Media, Culture, and Society
• Film Aesthetics and Economics