Oral Presentations - Guzman 202
Location
Guzman 202
Start Date
4-23-2015 6:20 PM
End Date
4-23-2015 6:35 PM
Student Type
Undergraduate
Faculty Mentor(s)
John Duvall, Ph.D.
Presentation Format
Oral Presentation
Abstract/Description
This thesis takes an analytical approach to examine the television show I Love Lucy. The contributing factors to the show’s continued success are considered, including Lucille Ball’s comedic style, domesticity and the role of housewives, marital relations, pregnancy on television, and the larger gender representations with a subtopic of social norms. Upon studying the above aspects of I Love Lucy, it is clear that each topic played an essential role in the success of the show. Ball’s comedic style combined with her portrayal of a 1950s housewife, and the social norms that she and her co-stars broke through paved the way for the enduring I Love Lucy phenomenon.
Included in
Business and Corporate Communications Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Film and Media Studies Commons
“I Love Lucy” Gender Analysis and its Influence on Popularity and Longevity
Guzman 202
This thesis takes an analytical approach to examine the television show I Love Lucy. The contributing factors to the show’s continued success are considered, including Lucille Ball’s comedic style, domesticity and the role of housewives, marital relations, pregnancy on television, and the larger gender representations with a subtopic of social norms. Upon studying the above aspects of I Love Lucy, it is clear that each topic played an essential role in the success of the show. Ball’s comedic style combined with her portrayal of a 1950s housewife, and the social norms that she and her co-stars broke through paved the way for the enduring I Love Lucy phenomenon.