American television during a television presidency by McNally, Karen

“…In American Television during a Television Presidency, Karen McNally and contributors critically examine the various ways in which television became transfixed by the Trump presidency and the broader political, social, and cultural climate. …”

The legacy of Mad Men: cultural history, intermediality and American television by McNally, Karen

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Afterword: Reading Mad Men in the era of Trump by McNally, Karen, Forde, Teresa

The political is personal: disturbing form, revisiting liberalism and resisting Trump's America in The Good Fight by McNally, Karen

Hollywood Stars vs Variety Show Hosts: The incompatible case of Frank Sinatra on 1950s Television by McNally, Karen

“…This article considers the identity of the variety show host on 1950s American television, exploring how Frank Sinatra’s poorly received assumption of the role reveals its strictly limited alignment with a perceived middle-class suburban family audience. …”
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Nixon, Trump and Washington behind closed doors: fictionalizing Watergate and the prescience of the historical miniseries by McNally, Karen

“…The development of the miniseries as a TV genre during the 1970s became central to American television’s dramatization of the nation’s history through stories that combined fact and fiction to relate the past to contemporary US culture. …”
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