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Weisblat, Tinky. "Will the Real George and Gracie and Ozzie and Harriet and Desi and Lucy Please Stand Up? - The Functions of Popular Biography in 1950s Television," University of Texas at Austin, January 1991. Advisor: Tom Schatz (2, 14, 11)
Using a cultural-studies approach, this dissertation examines the discourse about the “real” George Burns and Gracie Allen, Ozzie and harriet Nelson, and Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball in the 1950s press. Like the television programs in which these couples starred, the offscreen biographies were fictions performing cultural work. The study delineates that work, posting that the biographies performed two functions. First, they embodied struggles between the couples and individual, social, and institutional structures. They also acted to shape viewing contexts for the programs, containing their potential threats to gender norms by juxtaposing them against a more normative reality.
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