What strikes me again here—and continually did as I watched the first season last summer (it’s addictive!) –-is Family’s renegotiation of the paternal role. Broderick is the chief support of the family financially according to the 1950s breadwinner model, ...
Great to see this show again. I remember it very well, and what I always loved about it was how profoundly sad Banner was; his grief over his wife was then compounded by a medical error, making him unable to achieve either personal happiness or social pow ...
I completely agree with Elana’s point here about the different –and highly gendered—addresses of the film vs. television audiences of the 1970s. Television certainly linked aggressive masculinity with violence (to a fault, perhaps), but it also offered a ...
Avi—We are definitely dealing with a brand of rugged individualism, but it is a specifically 70s counterculture version and primarily honors physical labor that benefits the local community and doesn’t hurt the environment: farmers, traders, small store o ...
I vividly remember when Luke & Laura dominated popular culture, but I never knew their relationship started with a rape! So fascinating, and a reminder to me of just how culturally prominent day-time soap stars and plotlines were in the 1970s. I agree ...
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