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Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television

Elana Levine, Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television. Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 2007. ISBN: 978 082 233919 9 US$22.95 (pb) 320pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) In 1977 an ‘anonymous TV executive’ described American television as ‘wallowing in sex’ (4), an evocative description of seventies network programming that inspired the title of …

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