Elayne Rapping

Elayne Antler Rapping is a writer, analyst, and critic of American media and popular culture.

Early Life and Education

Born in Chicago, she began her education at the University of California, Los Angeles, then earned her masters and doctoral degrees in English at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1967, she received the Andrew Mellon Fellowship.

Career

Rapping has taught Communications at Adelphi University, and is presently Professor of Women's Studies and Media Studies at State University of New York Buffalo. Rapping is the author of several books which address a range of topics from popular culture, television and society, gender issues, and media theory. In addition, she has contributed to publications such as "The Progressive", "The Nation", "The Village Voice", "Cineaste", and "Jump Cut".

Books

* (1976) "Processed ideas and packaged dreams: The manufacturing and marketing of American reality"
* (1987) "The Looking Glass World of Non-Fiction Television" (ISBN 0-89608-282-2)
* (1992) "The Movie of the Week: Private Stories, Public Events" (ISBN 0-81662-017-2)
* (1993) "Gender and media theory: A Critique of the backlash model"
* (1994) "Media-tions: Forays into the Culture and Gender Wars" (ISBN 0-89608-478-5)
* (1997) "The Culture of Recovery" (ISBN 0-80702-717-0)
* (2003) "Law and Justice as Seen on TV" (ISBN 0-81477-560-8)

Articles

* "Unfree Women: Feminism in Doris Lessing's Fiction," Womens Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, (1975), 29-44.
* "Tupperware and Women," Radical America, vol. 14, no.6,(November-December, 1980), 39-50.
* "The View from Hollywood: The American Family and the American Dream," Socialist Review, vol.13, no. 1,(January-February, 1983), 71-92.
* "The Magic World of Nonfiction TV," Monthly Review, vol. 35, no. 7, (December, 1983), 7l-92.
* "Under Fire" By Elayne Rapping and Robert Simon. "Jump Cut" no. 30, (March 1985), p.70
* "Twice in a Lifetime: Consuming Families" "Jump Cut" no. 31, March 1986, p.3-4
* "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," Media and Values, (Summer, 1987), 10-13.
* "Art and the U.S. Left," Monthly Review, vol.39, no. 1, (January, 1987), 29-38.
* "Max Headroom: V-v-very Bigtime TV," Socialist Review, no.96, (1988), 31-45.
* "The Jane Austen Thing" "The Progressive" July 1996, p 37
* "The Movie of the Week: Law, Narrativity, and Gender on Prime Time" In: "Feminism, Media, and the Law" Edited by Martha Fineman and Martha McCluskey. Oxford University Press US (1997) (ISBN 0-19509-629-0)
* “Television and the Rise of the Victims’ Rights Movement,” New York Law Review, Summer, (1999).
* "Textual Travel and Translation and an Age of Globalized Media," in Journal of Social Philosophy, forthcoming, Fall, (1999).
* “Justice and Ideology on Prime Time TV,” Studies in Law, Politics and Society, vol. 21, (2001)
* "Daytime Utopias: If You Lived in Pine Valley, You'd Be Home" In: "Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture" Edited by Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson and Jane Shattuc. Duke University Press (2002) p. 47 (ISBN 0-82232-737-6)
* “The Changing Face of Criminal Violence on Television,” In: "Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture." Eds Laurie Ouelette and Susan Murray, NYU Press. 2005
* “Feminism and Daytime Soap Operas,” forthcoming 2007. In: "Mediated Women," 2nd ed., ed Marian Meyers, Hampton Press.
* “TV Lawyers through History,” In: "Lawyers on Television: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," ed. Michael Asimov, forthcoming, (2009), ABA Press.

Television and Video

* "Swoons to Romance Novels", Paper Tiger Television 1983
* "Elayne Rapping Reads Soap Operas" As part of the Paper Tiger Television series: "Smashing the Myths of the Mass Media," 1985.

External links

* [http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p96613_index.html Law and Society Association article on Elayne Rapping's work on TV lawyers]
* [https://www.jstor.org/action/ecommPurchase/10.2307/2077248 Review of Culture of Recovery in "Contemporary Sociology"]