Elana Levine
@ehl.bsky.social
media studies professor, TV lover, feminist, mom
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I just sent in the proofs and index to the 2nd ed. of The Media Studies Toolkit, coming soon.
Added index entries for 2e include: Beyoncé, Carpenter, S., The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Spielberg, S., Swift, T., Wednesday, X (social media).
Added index entries for 2e include: Beyoncé, Carpenter, S., The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Spielberg, S., Swift, T., Wednesday, X (social media).
New Toolkit edition coming in February 2026
www.routledge.com/The-Media-St...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I just sent in the proofs and index to the 2nd ed. of The Media Studies Toolkit, coming soon.
Added index entries for 2e include: Beyoncé, Carpenter, S., The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Spielberg, S., Swift, T., Wednesday, X (social media).
Added index entries for 2e include: Beyoncé, Carpenter, S., The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Spielberg, S., Swift, T., Wednesday, X (social media).
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New Toolkit edition coming in February 2026
www.routledge.com/The-Media-St...
www.routledge.com/The-Media-St...
September 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
New Toolkit edition coming in February 2026
www.routledge.com/The-Media-St...
www.routledge.com/The-Media-St...
Disney cross-promoting Marvel and . . . General Hospital?! Another never thought I'd see it moment.
July 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Disney cross-promoting Marvel and . . . General Hospital?! Another never thought I'd see it moment.
Got to do an interview about HER STORIES on the New Books Network podcast! newbooksnetwork.com/her-stories
Elana Levine, "Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History" (Duke UP, 2020) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
July 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Got to do an interview about HER STORIES on the New Books Network podcast! newbooksnetwork.com/her-stories
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The state can easily allow UWM to make long-term investments by funding the university system properly.
Kathleen Gallagher: UWM's making a big mistake to cut engineering program at critical time
It’s a classic example of dumb decisions potentially accelerating the decline of an industry. In this case, at exactly the wrong time.
www.jsonline.com
June 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The state can easily allow UWM to make long-term investments by funding the university system properly.
Gaggle of 15 year old boys in the house to watch the new Phineas & Ferb season. It’s a beautiful thing
June 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Gaggle of 15 year old boys in the house to watch the new Phineas & Ferb season. It’s a beautiful thing
Such a thrill to write about My So-Called Life and Winnie Holzman for @atpost45.bsky.social!
For @ehl.bsky.social, the voice of MSCL's creator, Winnie Holzman (who would go on to write the musical and film adaptation of Wicked), stands out. Holzman’s style has had an enormous & largely unrecognized effect on popular culture, especially on depictions of girlhood. post45.org/2025/05/the-...
The Voice of Winnie Holzman - Post45
My So-Called Life is full of Angela Chase’s voice. As the protagonist, the young teen’s thoughts — unfiltered, emotional, hilarious, self-involved — are threaded in voice-over throughout the series. T...
post45.org
May 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Such a thrill to write about My So-Called Life and Winnie Holzman for @atpost45.bsky.social!
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For @ehl.bsky.social, the voice of MSCL's creator, Winnie Holzman (who would go on to write the musical and film adaptation of Wicked), stands out. Holzman’s style has had an enormous & largely unrecognized effect on popular culture, especially on depictions of girlhood. post45.org/2025/05/the-...
The Voice of Winnie Holzman - Post45
My So-Called Life is full of Angela Chase’s voice. As the protagonist, the young teen’s thoughts — unfiltered, emotional, hilarious, self-involved — are threaded in voice-over throughout the series. T...
post45.org
May 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
For @ehl.bsky.social, the voice of MSCL's creator, Winnie Holzman (who would go on to write the musical and film adaptation of Wicked), stands out. Holzman’s style has had an enormous & largely unrecognized effect on popular culture, especially on depictions of girlhood. post45.org/2025/05/the-...
VERY excited for this one . . . coming Thursday!
🗣️ *My So-Called Life* turned 30 (1994-1995) this year! We've got a cluster for you, stay tuned—
Ed. by @dfmorgan.bsky.social, & ft. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social, Steven T. Gravatt, @cmceleney.bsky.social, @elishacohn.bsky.social, @mythrijega.bsky.social, @ehl.bsky.social, @oliviastowell.bsky.social
Ed. by @dfmorgan.bsky.social, & ft. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social, Steven T. Gravatt, @cmceleney.bsky.social, @elishacohn.bsky.social, @mythrijega.bsky.social, @ehl.bsky.social, @oliviastowell.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
VERY excited for this one . . . coming Thursday!
It’s sooooo good!
My dissertation is live on ProQuest! Currently behind an instructional paywall, but if you'd like a copy lmk.
I'm so proud of my work and so grateful for my committee's guidance, especially my advisor @ehl.bsky.social!
I'm so proud of my work and so grateful for my committee's guidance, especially my advisor @ehl.bsky.social!
Playing Across Borders: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in the Transnational Circulation of Japanese Video Games - ProQuest
Explore millions of resources from scholarly journals, books, newspapers, videos and more, on the ProQuest Platform.
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May 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
It’s sooooo good!
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I graduated today! Can't thank my friends, family, and my advisor @ehl.bsky.social enough for all their support, joy, and care. Thank you all so much!
May 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I graduated today! Can't thank my friends, family, and my advisor @ehl.bsky.social enough for all their support, joy, and care. Thank you all so much!
Strong final episode (before a bonus ep!) of Making: Stories Without End. So happy I got to explain my beef with the "OJ killed the soaps" narrative, one of my pet peeves
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TV wouldn’t be TV without soap operas
Soaps once brought in 75% of a TV network’s revenue, says author Elana Levine. “Soaps were a legitimate kind of pop culture sensation.”
www.wbez.org
May 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Strong final episode (before a bonus ep!) of Making: Stories Without End. So happy I got to explain my beef with the "OJ killed the soaps" narrative, one of my pet peeves
www.wbez.org/making/2025/...
www.wbez.org/making/2025/...
new piece on soaps with some thoughts from me www.ft.com/content/d4d8...
The great soap opera inheritance
The launch of the first new show in the genre in the US in 25 years shows the endurance of steamy melodrama
www.ft.com
May 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
new piece on soaps with some thoughts from me www.ft.com/content/d4d8...
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For Flow, I wrote this essay about the camera looks in Abbott Elementary and other comedies, and camera looks more generally going back to film comedian comedies and musicals. I connect these looks to the sitcom laugh track. www.flowjournal.org/2025/04/came...
April 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
For Flow, I wrote this essay about the camera looks in Abbott Elementary and other comedies, and camera looks more generally going back to film comedian comedies and musicals. I connect these looks to the sitcom laugh track. www.flowjournal.org/2025/04/came...
This week's episode of Making: Stories without End is a great look at the place of Black actors, writers, and viewers for daytime soaps, plus a bit on the history of Black characters and storylines. Good stuff! www.wbez.org/making/2025/...
Black actors don’t want to be your sidekick
Soaps have featured Black actors for decades, but Black writers and actors say they’ve had to push their stories to the foreground.
www.wbez.org
April 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This week's episode of Making: Stories without End is a great look at the place of Black actors, writers, and viewers for daytime soaps, plus a bit on the history of Black characters and storylines. Good stuff! www.wbez.org/making/2025/...
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This is a really good TV history podcast with a critical edge and lots of great audio clips.
If you need a respite from, well, all of this, check out episode 2 of Making: Stories without End, all about the soaps' attention to "women's issues." W/ great cover image of Erica Kane!
www.wbez.org/making/2025/...
www.wbez.org/making/2025/...
In the world of soaps, women’s issues take front-burner status
Soap operas air five days a week. That frequency allows for — and demands — pioneering storytelling, especially when it comes to gender.
www.wbez.org
April 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is a really good TV history podcast with a critical edge and lots of great audio clips.
If you need a respite from, well, all of this, check out episode 2 of Making: Stories without End, all about the soaps' attention to "women's issues." W/ great cover image of Erica Kane!
www.wbez.org/making/2025/...
www.wbez.org/making/2025/...
In the world of soaps, women’s issues take front-burner status
Soap operas air five days a week. That frequency allows for — and demands — pioneering storytelling, especially when it comes to gender.
www.wbez.org
April 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
If you need a respite from, well, all of this, check out episode 2 of Making: Stories without End, all about the soaps' attention to "women's issues." W/ great cover image of Erica Kane!
www.wbez.org/making/2025/...
www.wbez.org/making/2025/...
First episode out today for Making: Stories without End podcast from @wbez.org! This one is mostly about the "mother" of daytime soap opera, Irna Phillips. If you like Chicago, broadcast history, soap opera, or listening to me you will enjoy it!
www.wbez.org/making/2025/...
www.wbez.org/making/2025/...
Meet Irna Phillips: The Queen of Daytime
Meet the Chicago woman who birthed the soap opera, first for radio in the 1930s and then TV in the 1950s.
www.wbez.org
April 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
First episode out today for Making: Stories without End podcast from @wbez.org! This one is mostly about the "mother" of daytime soap opera, Irna Phillips. If you like Chicago, broadcast history, soap opera, or listening to me you will enjoy it!
www.wbez.org/making/2025/...
www.wbez.org/making/2025/...
Trailer up today for new podcast from @wbez.org! You can hear me briefly in the trailer and in a few episodes of the show, launching April 8. Should be a great look at impact of soaps www.wbez.org/making/2025/...
TRAILER: Stories Without End
WBEZ's Making podcast delves into daytime soaps in an all-new season.
www.wbez.org
March 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Trailer up today for new podcast from @wbez.org! You can hear me briefly in the trailer and in a few episodes of the show, launching April 8. Should be a great look at impact of soaps www.wbez.org/making/2025/...
The first of the (vast) coverage of new CBS soap, Beyond the Gates, that actually engages with the industry logics that CBS and P&G are employing. No surprise that they include value of soap streaming audience AND brand integrations, just like a proper 1930s radio serial. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Procter & Gamble Works Up New Lather for Soap Operas With ‘Beyond the Gates’
Procter & Gamble returns to the business of soap operas with CBS' 'Beyond the Gates' after many years of not producing the genre
variety.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The first of the (vast) coverage of new CBS soap, Beyond the Gates, that actually engages with the industry logics that CBS and P&G are employing. No surprise that they include value of soap streaming audience AND brand integrations, just like a proper 1930s radio serial. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Glad to be part of some full fledged coverage of CBS' new soap, Beyond the Gates! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/a...
‘Beyond the Gates’ Brings Soap Operas Back to Daytime TV
Once a centerpiece of daytime TV, soaps have mostly disappeared. “Beyond the Gates” will try to revive the genre, and will be the first ever focused primarily on a Black family.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Glad to be part of some full fledged coverage of CBS' new soap, Beyond the Gates! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/a...
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Nice to see that UWM alum Susan Kerns will be leading MKE Film
Press release: "I feel honored, delighted, and incredibly excited to step into the Executive Director role at Milwaukee Film."
Milwaukee Film announces new executive leadership
“I feel honored, delighted, and incredibly excited to step into the Executive Director role at Milwaukee Film.”
milwaukeerecord.com
January 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Nice to see that UWM alum Susan Kerns will be leading MKE Film
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A lot of research goes into my podcasts. I'll post more photos of shelves, this one is special. Am truly grateful for the dozens of authors who've shared their work on Advanced TV Herstory, including @ehl.bsky.social @jmkarmstrong.bsky.social @drtvlotz.bsky.social
December 30, 2024 at 10:05 PM
A lot of research goes into my podcasts. I'll post more photos of shelves, this one is special. Am truly grateful for the dozens of authors who've shared their work on Advanced TV Herstory, including @ehl.bsky.social @jmkarmstrong.bsky.social @drtvlotz.bsky.social
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The line between TikTok and TV is pretty blurry.
An essay by me on After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson and many of my other FYP regulars in @flowtv.bsky.social.
www.flowjournal.org/2024/12/tikt...
An essay by me on After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson and many of my other FYP regulars in @flowtv.bsky.social.
www.flowjournal.org/2024/12/tikt...
TikTok is Television, Television is TikTokMichael Z. Newman / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee – Flow
www.flowjournal.org
December 18, 2024 at 5:45 PM
The line between TikTok and TV is pretty blurry.
An essay by me on After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson and many of my other FYP regulars in @flowtv.bsky.social.
www.flowjournal.org/2024/12/tikt...
An essay by me on After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson and many of my other FYP regulars in @flowtv.bsky.social.
www.flowjournal.org/2024/12/tikt...