Archives Collection
LEWIS, LISA
A. 97-045
RESEARCH
VIDEOS 07-020
Physical
Description:
2.5 l.f. comprised of 84 videotapes
Dates:
1983-1992
RESTRICTIONS:
These
tapes may not be copied under any circumstances and are limited strictly to
viewing. Standard copyright laws apply.
Provenance:
These videos were sent to the Center
by Lisa Lewis in September 1995 and March and May of 2008. The videos are copies of television programs
used for her research for articles, dissertation, and books.
Biographical
Sketch:
Lisa
Ann Lewis was born in Evansville Indiana 27 July 1956. She graduated from
Antioch College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1978, was awarded a Master of Arts
degree from Northwestern University in 1981 and received her doctorate from
University of Texas at Austin in 1987.
While
a student at Antioch College she worked as a high school teacher in Wyncote,
Pennsylvania, a writer for Mountain Life
and Work, a staff worker for the United Farm Workers Union; and in other
positions. She taught television criticism
and production for two years at Western Illinois University in Macomb Illinois
and was employed as an assistant instructor in the Department of Radio,
Television and Film while a student at the University of Texas at Austin.
In
1990 Temple University Press published her book Gender Politics and MTV, which was based in part on her
dissertation "Female Address in Music Videos." The following year she edited the collection The Adoring Audience: Fan Culture and
Popular Media. Both before and after
the appearance of these volumes she published a number of articles on women and
popular culture and presented papers on the same subject at a variety of
academic symposia and conferences.
She
currently lives in Los Angeles California.
--
based on a vita bound into a copy of her dissertation now located in
Special Collections
Scope and
Content:
Thirty
eight (38) VHS format T-120 videotapes containing copies of television
programs. Programs represented include
MTV Awards, American Music Awards, Grammy Awards, the Phil Donahue show, the
Johnny Carson Show, MTV episodes, and the Live Aid concert. Artists
represented
include Madonna, Pat Benatar, Janet Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Boy George, Tina Turner,
Whitney Houston, the Eurhythmics, the Rolling Stones, and Billy Joel--but
include much more. The majority of the programs
were taken from the air between August 1983 and March 1988. (Two video tapes
received in 2008 were unplayable and two were commercial recordings that have
been transferred to video holdings.)
Location:
This
collection is filed by accession number with other manuscript groups. The Reading Room books and commercial video
tapes are searchable through the main MTSU Voyager catalog.
Related
Materials:
Two
books housed in the Center by Lewis (Reading Room collection) and her
dissertation (special collections) can be found in the main MTSU library
catalog. Also from her collection are seven (7) compact discs among the
recordings of Pat Benatar on Chrysalis Records.
Please also see the Lisa A. Lewis Papers, accession number 94-086, which
contains research materials generated by Lewis's research on women in music
videos.
46 ½” VHS Video
Tapes that arrived 2008:
1. Music Video Presentation
2. First Annual MTV Awards 1984 – Best female
video
3. Madonna on Arsinio and Twin Peaks
4. MTV Madonna video contest “Make My Video”
5. Madonna music videos 1984 – “Burning Up”,
“Borderline”, “Lucky Star”
6. Music Videos on MTV; BET, 1988
7. Sex as a Weapon – Pat Benatar
8. Madonna – “Open Your Heart” 1987
9. Tucson MTV music videos – Aerosmith, Motley
Crew, Michael Jackson
10. MTV Jams;
Beavis & Butthead
11. Madonna
music video excerpts; Madonna video contest finalist #6
12. MTV News:
Madonna interview from Evita set;
1993 movies Laurel Avenue and Sunday
Morning.
13. Cyndi Lauper
music videos: “Blue Angel,” “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” “Time after
Time,”
“She Bop”; Lauper on Fashion Show;
News 1/17/1985 on contest shopping; Record producing segment on Good Morning America.
14. Joan Jett
& the Blackhearts, “Little Liar”
15. Joan Jett
& the Blackhearts, “Don’t Surrender”
16. Cyndi Lauper
on David Letterman’s 6th Anniversary Special 1988
17. “Rock n’
Roll Christmas” MTV special with Pat Benatar, 1981
18. Cyndi Lauper
in trailer for movie Vibes
19. Madonna
Live: The Virgin Tour
20. “Wild Island
Cruise”; Vibes commercial; Music
Video, “Hole”
21. News Hour
with Jim Lehrer; Madonna in Concert: “Dress You Up”
22. Cyndi Lauper
on Good Morning America 8/2/88– interview about Vibes
23. Music
videos: Queen Latifah; Independent; Martika’s Kitchen
24. Pat Benatar
music videos: “Lipstick Lies,” “Ooh Ooh Song,” etc.
25. Out of the Blue movie
26. Women in Rock on Showtime
27. Cyndi Lauper
interview on MTV 12/14/1986
28. Joan Jett
& the Blackhearts, “Backlash”
29. MTV News;
MTV’s “Wild Island Cruise” with Cyndi Lauper, 1988
30. Pat Benatar
music videos and interview 1984; Concert videos from 1983
31. Light of Day, 1/15/1987
32. MTV music
videos, Summer 1989
33. Bay Area
News; “Screen Scene” 1992; Generations
34. Cyndi Lauper
on Entertainment Tonight; Peter Faulk
interview
35. MASH;
Madonna interview on ABC News
36. News:
Selena; MTV Music video “Alice in Chains”; Selena special on FOX
37.Tina Turner,
“Private Dancer”; “Typical Male”; Tina Turner interviews 1985; Grammy Award; ZZ Top.
38. Pat Benatar
music video “Love Is A Battlefield”; MTV Bette Midler, “Beast of Burden,”
First Annual MTV Awards, 1984.
39. Desire/Sex/Power in Rock Video; MTV music
videos
40. MTV Best of
Spring Break 1988; Paula Abdul “Straight Up;” Guns n’ Roses “Paradise City;”
Roy Orbison “You Got It.”
41. Prince in
concert; Cyndi Lauper in concert; Grace Jones, “A One Man Show.”
42. MTV Peter
Jennings on Madonna; Madonna look alikes; The Doors, “The Road House
Blues;” other MTV music videos.
Separated Materials:
Books –
Holiday with Madonna/ Gordon Matthews
Madonna!/ Mark Bego
The Star Hits 1986 Yearbook
Gender Chameleons: Androgyny in Rock ‘n
Roll/Steven Simels
Video –
Tina Turner
“Private Dancer”
Madonna –
“Burning Up,” “Borderline,” “Lucky Star,” “Like a Virgin”
Updated
by LPC May 2008.