Advanced Herstory on the 1970s female private eye. This podcast episode takes a look at the tv adaptation of Nancy Drew, which starred Pamela Sue Martin and then Janet Louise Johnson, Mrs. Columbo, which featured the wife of Lt. Columbo, of the long-running hit Columbo (featuring Peter Falk, although his wife on that show never appeared), and Charlie's Angels, which launched Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson, and Jaclyn Smith as three lovelies who fought crime for the unseen (but heard) John Forsythe.
Showing posts with label Nancy Drew. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nancy Drew. Show all posts
February 7, 2017
Advanced Herstory Looks At Female TV Sleuths From the 1970s @TVHerstory
January 20, 2016
Nancy Drew, 2.0
The Hollywood Reporter notes that CBS will offer an updated series from Joan Rater and Tony Phelan, called Drew, based on the Nancy Drew character. Nancy, who according to a CBS exec "[will] not [be] Caucasian," will be in her 30s and will work for the NYPD.
Here's a quick update on Nancy's pop culture past, also from the Hollywood Reporter.
A short bibliography on Nancy Drew:
C. Billman, The Secret of the Stratemeyer Syndicate: Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, and the Million Dollar Fiction Factory (Ungar Publishing, 1986).
Susan R. Brooker-Gross, Landscape and Social Values in Popular Children's Literature: Nancy Drew Mysteries, 80 Journal of Geography 59 (1981).
Rediscovering Nancy Drew (Carolyn Stewart Dyer and Nancy Tillman Romalov eds.; Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995).
Melanie Rehak, Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her (NY: Harcourt, 2005).
Here's a quick update on Nancy's pop culture past, also from the Hollywood Reporter.
A short bibliography on Nancy Drew:
C. Billman, The Secret of the Stratemeyer Syndicate: Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, and the Million Dollar Fiction Factory (Ungar Publishing, 1986).
Susan R. Brooker-Gross, Landscape and Social Values in Popular Children's Literature: Nancy Drew Mysteries, 80 Journal of Geography 59 (1981).
Rediscovering Nancy Drew (Carolyn Stewart Dyer and Nancy Tillman Romalov eds.; Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995).
Melanie Rehak, Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her (NY: Harcourt, 2005).
June 3, 2009
Judge Sotomayor and Nancy Drew
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayer discussed Nancy Drew with Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-Md). Both apparently remember the titian-haired eighteen-year-old detective from River Heights fondly, as do a lot of us. I had nearly all the Nancy Drew books, and read and re-read them avidly, although as I got older, I also read the Hardy Boys, which I liked for the mysteries (I thought the female characters were pretty useless though).
For more on Nancy and her influence, see
Sherrie A. Inness, Nancy Drew and Company: Culture, Gender, and Girls’ Series (1997).
Glenwood H. Irons, Feminism in Women’s Detective Fiction (1995).
Bobbie Ann Mason, The Girl Sleuth (1995).
Melanie Rehak, Girl sleuth : Nancy Drew and the women who created her (2005).
See also
The History of Nancy Drew
The Nancy Drew television series (1977-1978), starring Pamela Sue Martin, is currently available on DVD. The film, starring Emma Roberts, is also available, as are the films starring Bonita Granville, made in the 1930s.
For more on Nancy and her influence, see
Sherrie A. Inness, Nancy Drew and Company: Culture, Gender, and Girls’ Series (1997).
Glenwood H. Irons, Feminism in Women’s Detective Fiction (1995).
Bobbie Ann Mason, The Girl Sleuth (1995).
Melanie Rehak, Girl sleuth : Nancy Drew and the women who created her (2005).
See also
The History of Nancy Drew
The Nancy Drew television series (1977-1978), starring Pamela Sue Martin, is currently available on DVD. The film, starring Emma Roberts, is also available, as are the films starring Bonita Granville, made in the 1930s.
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