Books

bold = read

Wonderland, Steven Johnson
The Joke’s On Us
We Killed, Yael Kohen (must read again)
Women In Comedy
The New Humor in the Progressive Era
Theme Park Design and the Art of Themed Entertainment, Ryan Younger
Comedy and the woman writer
The Participatory museum
Poking a dead frog
Mary And Lou And Rhoda And Ted and all the brilliant minds that who made the Mary Tyler Moore Show a classic
Love is All Around
Women and Laughter
Planning For People In Museum Exhibitions
Comedy and the woman writer
The Participatory museum
Bossy Pants
Yes Please

Articles

Who Said Women Aren’t Funny, 2012 Feb 27,Published in Journal Adweek.. Volume 53. Issue 8. Page 15.

A Very Serious Thing: Women’s Humor and American Culture (1988)

Funny Girl. 2014 Dec 29, Published in Journal Time. Volume 184. Issue 26/27. Page 96.

Martha Lauzen (2014) The Funny Business of Being Tina Fey: Constructing a (feminist) comedy icon, Feminist Media Studies, 14:1, 106-117, DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2012.740060

Gender inequality in culture industries: Women and men writers in film and television, 2009 Jan 01, Published in Journal Sociologie du travail. Volume 51. Issue 2. Page 237.

LAUGH TRACK; WOMEN GAIN VISIBILITY AS CREATORS, WRITERS OF MANY TV COMEDIES THIS SEASON, 2001 Feb 28, Published in Journal Chicago Tribune. Page 2.

Not That Kind of Girl, By: MALONE, NOREEN. New Republic. 5/27/2013, Vol. 244 Issue 8, p16-21. 6p. 4 Color Photographs. , Database: The New Republic Archive

The Smart Sting of Samantha Bee, By: Griffith, Erin. Fortune. 9/15/2016, Vol. 174 Issue 4, p128-130. 3p. 1 Color Photograph. , Database: Business Source Alumni Edition

Women Get the Last Laugh, By: Sperling, Nicole. Entertainment Weekly. 5/15/2015, Issue 1363, p12-14. 3p. 12 Color Photographs.

The Culture Behind Closed Doors: Issues of Gender and Race in the Writers’ Room.2011 Jan 01 Published in Journal Cinema Journal. Volume 50. Issue 2. Page 145.

Treva Silverman. 2013 Dec 01, Published in Journal Emmy. Volume 35. Issue 9. Page 52.

https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/05/the-real-feminist-impact-of-i-the-mary-tyler-moore-show-i-was-behind-the-scenes/275875/

http://fortune.com/2017/01/26/mary-tyler-moore-women-writers/

http://www.emmys.com/news/foundation-archive/comedy-writer-treva-silverman

http://annenberg.usc.edu/pages/~/media/MDSCI/CARDReport%20FINAL%2022216.ashx

http://variety.com/2009/tv/awards/30-rock-writers-room-echoes-real-life-1118007246/

http://nymag.com/thecut/2012/08/phyllis-diller-who-joked-like-a-man.html

http://www.vulture.com/2016/01/how-comedy-finally-caught-up-to-female-comedians.html

http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2007/08/treva-silverman.html

http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/treva-silverman

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/books/review/we-killed-by-yael-kohen.html

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/top-lists/las-women-behind-the-mary-tyler-moore-show/