‘Boswellized From Mere Persons to Personages’: Arthur Stringer, Mary Pickford, and the Trouble with Celebrity Profile(r)s

Lee, Katja

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“…44 "[J]ournalism's version of biography 45 ," the celebrity profile is necessarily truncated. As Katja Lee notes, it provides "a snapshot of a personality" 46 rather than the whole life and it usually targets an audience that "is generally assumed to be familiar with, even knowledgeable about and interested in, the celebrity subject 47 ." Accordingly, there is often an element of in media res to celebrity profiles of established stars.…”

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A “very politically correct, wholesome family show”: Jane Seymour’s white, heterosexual femininity in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

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2022

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In January 1993, the US television station CBS premiered a new TV drama about Michaela Quinn—a Boston doctor who moved alone to the Colorado frontier to establish her medical practice. Seymour’s biography played a critical role in the initial promotion of the show. The character of Dr. Quinn, as Seymour played her, was a feminist in the Hillary Rodham Clinton vein, and the show’s drama primarily revolved around Quinn’s gender deviance and issues arising from white patriarchy. Given this progressive, feminist bent, it’s surprising that the show resonated with conservative audiences and, in U.S. syndication, found a home on evangelical Christian networks such as PAX-TV and INSP. Combining media analysis, cultural analysis, and biographical research, this article analyzes how Jane Seymour’s star image and biography enabled Dr. Quinn to interrogate and challenge gender roles while also working to bolster the show’s position as “family values” TV. Ultimately, this analysis reveals the powerful role a star’s biography can play in disseminating ideas to diverse, sometimes potentially resistant, audiences.

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Section: "The Woman Who Wrote the Book On Romance"mentioning

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A “very politically correct, wholesome family show”: Jane Seymour’s white, heterosexual femininity in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

Eaton¹

2022

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‘Boswellized From Mere Persons to Personages’: Arthur Stringer, Mary Pickford, and the Trouble with Celebrity Profile(r)s

Cited by 1 publication

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A “very politically correct, wholesome family show”: Jane Seymour’s white, heterosexual femininity in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

A “very politically correct, wholesome family show”: Jane Seymour’s white, heterosexual femininity in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

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