Posts from the ‘Televising Masculinities’ category

Televising Masculinities: The Sitcom Dad in the 1950s on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet may have been the blandest of the 1950s sitcoms, but it was also a pivotal one in forming the figure of the sitcom father.

Televising Masculinities: Blue Collar Masculinity and the 1950s in The Honeymooners

The TV set, the household, and The Honeymooners shine a light on 1950s masculinity.

Televising Masculinities: I Love Lucy: Expectations of the Sitcom Husband in the early 1950s (Part 2)

Brian Faucette concludes his premiere column on masculinity on TV with more on “I Love Lucy.”

Televising Masculinities: I Love Lucy: Expectations of the Sitcom Husband in the early 1950s (Part 1)

Brian Faucette begins his column on masculinity on TV with a look at the home labor in “I Love Lucy.”