Description: Everyone from scholars and students of television and media studies, genre studies, gender and sexuality studies, and popular culture, to superfans who can't believe the show is over will revel in this highly approachable and fun read.
Brief description: Linda Mizejewski is an Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University. She has published five monographs and two anthologies on women in popular culture, most recently Our Blessed Rebel Queen: Essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia (Wayne State University Press, 2021), co-edited with Tanya D. Zuk.
Review Quotes:
Mizejewski reads The Americans as a domestic melodrama that negotiates the terrain of the real and the 'real.' It is an incisive analysis informed by her immersion in all aspects of '80s history and culture."
--Ina Rae Hark "University of South Carolina"