UWM professor talks television on CNN’s “The Seventies”

Elana Levine talks about '70s television and culture on the CNN documentary series "The Seventies."
Elana Levine talks about ’70s television and culture on the CNN documentary series “The Seventies.”

The 1970s were a turbulent and exciting decade, and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee associate professor Elana Levine will help CNN make sense of it in the eight-part documentary series “The Seventies” that begins airing at 8 p.m., Thursday, June 11.

An associate professor in the Department of Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies, Levine will lend her voice in the first episode, “Television Gets Real,” which covers shows such as “All in the Family,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Saturday Night Live.” Levine may make an additional appearance in an episode covering the ’70s sexual revolution.

Levine studies television history, as well as gender and sexuality in the media. She is the author of “Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television.”

For more information about “The Seventies,” visit http://cnn.it/1J5DgHp.

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