L.S. KIM’s new award-winning 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.

L.S. Kim is a Media Scholar specializing in television studies, Asian American Cinema, feminist theory and criticism, racial discourse, and social change through both Hollywood and independent media.