Thesiss

This study investigates the portrayal of Black female characters in American sitcoms. Using content analysis, five different Black family sitcoms from the 1970s-2010s were used to determine whether the portrayal of Black female characters have, over the five decades in question,…

This project centers set design as the primary aesthetic, economic, and sociopolitical driver of the sitcom genre’s emergence and development during the first half of the twentieth century. My work treats sitcom set design as a category of historical architecture that can be (an…