Yael Levy is a Senior Lecturer at the Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of Chick TV: Antiheroines and Time Unbound (Syracuse University Press, 2022), and her writing on gender, race, sexuality, and textuality in television has appeared in Feminist Media Studies, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, and more. Her anthology, Israeli Television: Local Visions, Global Contexts, coedited with Miri Talmon, was published by Routledge in 2021.
Dr. Yael Levy
General Information
Publications
Boxed In: Pandemic TV as Intersectional Renegotiation of Feminist Attitudes Toward the Home, Television and New Media, 2024
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15274764241251760
Their Bodies, Their Selves: Reflexivity and Embodiment in 2010s Women's Autobiographical Author-Performer TV Dramedies. Camera Obscura, 2023.
<https://read.dukeupress.edu/camera-obscura/article/38/3 (114)/107/383728/Their-Bodies-Their-Selves-Reflexivity-and?guestAccessKey=9b14e1f1-6636-416a-ba2a-acc96a7b7346>
.Chick TV: Antoheroines and Time Unbound. Syracuse University Press, 2022
<https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/4382/chick-tv>
.Israeli Television: Global Contexts, Local Visions. Coedited with Miri Talmon. Routledge, 2021
https://www.amazon.com/Israeli-Television-Contexts-Visions-Routledge/dp/0367470330
“A Sexual Subject: Black Women’s Sexuality in Insecure.” Feminist Media Studies, 2020. <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2020.1722723>
“Serial Housewives: The Feminist Resistance of The Real Housewives’ Matrixial Structure.” Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 2018. <https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/zmdRKGGi4tF6aZZiCHUD/full>
“Girls’ Issues: The Feminist Politics of Girls’ Celebration of the ‘Trivial.’” In HBO's Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege. Eds. Elwood Watson, Jennifer Mitchell, Marc E. Shaw. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2015.
<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498522991/HBO's-Girls-and-the-Awkward-Politics-of-Gender-Race-and-Privilege>
“It Was Death; I Chose Life – Feminist Resistance in The Hours, Book and Film.” History and Theory, Bezalel, 2011. <http://bezalel.secured.co.il/zope/home/en/1301858337/1302071726>
Teaching
Feminist Television Theories
Revenge of the Housewife: Women and Domesticity in US Film and Television
Black and White TV: US Television and Race
Streaming and Web Series
Modern and Contemporary Film Theories