Children and television : lessons from Sesame Street / by Gerald S. Lesser ; foreword by Joan Ganz Cooney ; introd. by Lloyd Morrisett. by Lesser, Gerald S.

Women pioneers in television : biographies of fifteen industry leaders / by Cary O'Dell ; with a foreword by Sally Jessy Raphael. by O'Dell, Cary

Table of Contents: “…Mildred Freed Alberg -- Lucille Ball -- Gertrude Berg -- Peggy Charren -- Joan Ganz Cooney -- Faye Emerson -- Pauline Frederick -- Dorothy Fuldheim -- Betty Furness -- Frieda Hennock -- Lucy Jarvis -- Ida Lupino -- Irna Phillips -- Judith Waller -- Betty White.…”

Women and the media : diverse perspectives / edited by Theresa Carilli, Jane Campbell.

Table of Contents: “…Devenish -- Butterflies and boobs : ecofeminism complicity (or how to manufacture an environmental pin up girl) / Tina Richardson and Audrey Vanderford -- Performing politics : media aesthetics for women in political campaigns / Lori Montalbano-Phelps -- Million moms, MADD mothers, and feminists : media coverage of women activists / Angela High-Pippert -- A life's work : preserving and transcending immigrant culture / Linda Brigance -- Joan Ganz Cooney : the Children Television's Workshop / Margaret Finucane -- Frances Benjamin Johnston : mother of photojournalism / Cynthia Lont -- Recontextualizing the "change" : rhetorical and performative constructions of menopause in Cybil / Dacia Charlesworth.…”

Sighted eyes, feeling heart American Masters Pictures ; Lorraine Hansberry Documentary Project, LLC presents in association with the Film Posse, Chiz Schultz Inc. and American Masters Pictures ; a co-production with ITVS, Black Public Media ; written and directed by Tracey Heather Strain ; produced by Tracy Heather Strain and Randall MacLowry ; executive producer, Chiz Schultz.

I am Big Bird : the Caroll Spinney story / Tribeca Film presents a Copper Pot Pictures film ; produced and directed by Dave LaMattina & Chad Walker ; written by Dave LaMattina.

100 People Who Changed 20th-Century America [2 volumes]. by Cross, Mary

Table of Contents: “…Paul Samuelson (1915-2009)Ruth Handler (1916-2002) and the Barbie Doll (1959-); Robert Lowell (1917-1977); Sam Walton (1918-1962); Billy Graham (1918-); Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990); Jackie Robinson (1919-1972); Denton Cooley (1920-); Isaac Asimov (1920-1992); Richard Avedon (1923-2004); Marlon Brando (1924-2004); Johnny Carson (1925-2005); Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997); Hugh Hefner (1926-); James Dewey Watson (1928-); Noam Chomsky (1928-); Andy Warhol (1928-1987); Joan Ganz Cooney (1929-); Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968); Berry Gordy Jr. (1929-); Warren E. …”
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