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Elana Levine

@ehl.bsky.social
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media studies professor, TV lover, feminist, mom

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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Everyone know Tom Pelphrey has TWO Daytime Emmys! Why ignore while listing SMG’s?! The outrage!
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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Anyway, bring back TV. TV is Good.
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The magical interlibrary loan fairies have done it again. I literally could not do my job without them
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Michael Newman @mznewman.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
New work: a review of After Mass Media by @drtvlotz.bsky.social in Continuum. Important book for TV studies, lots to learn from it. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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After mass media: storytelling for microaudiences in the twenty-first century
Published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Michael Newman @mznewman.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The Media Studies Toolkit, 2nd edition, dropped this week. I'm excited for this refreshed, updated, and expanded version to reach students and instructors of introductory courses in media studies. www.routledge.com/The-Media-St... A short thread about what's inside.
book cover of Michael Z. Newman, The Media Studies Toolkit, 2nd ed., Routledge, 2026
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Everything feels really heavy right now but, boy, is it a hard day to be someone whose world was shaped by the romantic comedy of the '80s, at the movies and every afternoon on TV
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Michael Newman @mznewman.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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).
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Michael Newman @mznewman.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
New Toolkit edition coming in February 2026 www.routledge.com/The-Media-St...
Book cover of The Media Studies Toolkit Second Edition (Routledge)
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Disney cross-promoting Marvel and . . . General Hospital?! Another never thought I'd see it moment.
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Got to do an interview about HER STORIES on the New Books Network podcast! newbooksnetwork.com/her-stories
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Elana Levine, "Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History" (Duke UP, 2020) - New Books Network
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Michael Mirer @michaelmirer.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The state can easily allow UWM to make long-term investments by funding the university system properly.
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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.
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Gaggle of 15 year old boys in the house to watch the new Phineas & Ferb season. It’s a beautiful thing
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Such a thrill to write about My So-Called Life and Winnie Holzman for @atpost45.bsky.social!
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Contemporaries at Post45 @atpost45.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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-...
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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...
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
VERY excited for this one . . . coming Thursday!
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
It’s sooooo good!
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David Kocik @davidkocik.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
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!
David poses with his mom and dad, Pete and JoanneDavid poses with his BFF since 5th grade, KD!David poses with his friends Matthew, Jess, Kristine, and JanelleDavid poses with his advisor Elana Levine!
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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/...
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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.”
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
new piece on soaps with some thoughts from me www.ft.com/content/d4d8...
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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
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Michael Newman @mznewman.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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...
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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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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.
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Michael Newman @mznewman.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This is a really good TV history podcast with a critical edge and lots of great audio clips.
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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/...
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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.
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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/...
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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.
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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/...
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TRAILER: Stories Without End
WBEZ's Making podcast delves into daytime soaps in an all-new season.
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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...
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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
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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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‘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.
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Michael Newman @mznewman.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Nice to see that UWM alum Susan Kerns will be leading MKE Film
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CynthiaBemisAbrams @cynthiabemisabrams.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
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
A book shelf shows book titles about television. Text notes that some of the books from authors interviewed don't appear on the shelf because they have been lent out and never returned.
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Michael Newman @mznewman.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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...
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TikTok is Television, Television is TikTokMichael Z. Newman / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee – Flow
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Excited to have made it to a panel with NBC Universal archivists talking about preparing Homicide: Life on the Street for steaming. AMIA conference here in Milwaukee
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Strong recommend for fans of old school arcade games + artsy/kitschy mini-golf! www.cancanwonderland.com
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Arcade Games - Can Can Wonderland, St. Paul MN
About Can Can Wonderland in Saint Paul, MN. Call us at (651) 925-2261. Explore our history, photos, and latest menu with reviews and ratings.
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Michael Newman @mznewman.bsky.social · 09/05/2024
Pounce the Panther came to our last faculty meeting of the year to congratulate our chair, Lane Hall, who is retiring. We will really miss his collegial leadership.
Pounce congratulates Lane
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
The Emmys coming right after the Globes is making this like the world’s most boring rerun
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
I think that may be the best episode of a daytime soap I’ve ever seen. Such a deep grasp of why we are watching. Wow. #GH
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
Not recommended: getting teen up and out the door to school first day after winter break
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
in other TV news, everyone in my house liked Hallmark's Round and Round, this year's Hanukkah movie. Long live the rom com!
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
trying to make sense of this Netflix data drop . . . has anyone seen any info on what they are considering an "hour viewed"? Is it literally a viewing hour or does X minutes constitute an hour? So many questions . . . deadline.com/2023/12/netf...
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Netflix Viewership Data Highlights: What The New Report Does — And Doesn’t — Reveal About Stre...
Netflix released viewership data for nearly its entire catalog. Here's what the rankings show about the streamer's measurement of success.
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Moonlighting pilot is so ‘80s pilot-y in some rough ways but oh does David Addison still got it
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
just sent a student to the campus library to fetch the DVDs of Homicide: Life on the Street since they told me they are obsessed with finding the show after watching the making of documentary about "The Subway" in my class. Work done.
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Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
couldn't take the other place much longer; missed you all. Phew
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