L.S. KIM’s new book, MAID FOR TELEVISION examines race, class, and gender relations as embodied in a long history of television servants from 1950 to the turn of the millennium. The figure of the domestic servant in an employer’s home is a recurrent and patterned image, enacting and revealing the nexus of social hierarchies in American culture.

Television Studies Scholar specializing in television history and theory, racial discourse, feminist criticism, Asian American cinema and cultural production, industrial practices and social change in both mainstream Hollywood and independent media.