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
The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television
ביה"ס לקולנוע וטלוויזיה ע"ש סטיב טיש
סגל אקדמי בכיר
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
