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- Basic TV Herstory
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 been influenced by impressions of other women they've seen on TV.
CONNECT WITH CYNTHIA and ADVANCED TV HERSTORY
Monthly Newsletter - https://cynthiabemisabrams.com/
Website - https://cynthiabemisabrams.com/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/advancedtvherstory/
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@advancedtvherstory
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthia-bemis-abrams-5046573/
PRODUCTION
Podcast Editing - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariloumarosz/
Video Editing - https://nivialopez.com/
Music by Jahzzar - https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/
14 min - Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977-1979)
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-produced feminist vehicle by detailing how Pamela Sue Martin bolted for Playboy and wound up as a Dynasty Carrington.
Resource: Melanie Rehak's 2005 Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her.
CONNECT WITH CYNTHIA and ADVANCED TV HERSTORY
Monthly Newsletter - https://cynthiabemisabrams.com/
Website - https://cynthiabemisabrams.com/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/advancedtvherstory/
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@advancedtvherstory
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthia-bemis-abrams-5046573/
PRODUCTION
Podcast Editing - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariloumarosz/
Video Editing - https://nivialopez.com/
Music by Jahzzar - https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/
24 min
About Advanced TV Herstory
From the publisher's feed
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 will forever change how you watch TV.
Explore issues of race through interviews with academics Robin Means-Coleman and Charlene Regester, and influencer Karly Beaumont. Ever since the #MeToo Movement of 2017-18, Cynthia has highlighted key episodes and events surrounding sexual harassment - fictional and real life.
With listeners around the world, Cynthia celebrates the progress of representation in media and captures the stories and insights that make TV a powerful storyteller and mirror of truth. In 2025, Cynthia started revealing more about the book she and a colleague are writing. Subscribe to our monthly newsletter at www.tvherstory.com. Promise, your data will never be sold.
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