Gladiators in suits : race, gender, and the politics of representation in Scandal / edited by Simone Adams, Kimberly R. Moffitt, and Ronald L. Jackson II.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adams, Simone, editor.

Moffitt, Kimberly R., editor.

Jackson, Ronald L., 1970- editor.

Series:

Television and popular culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scandal (Television program).

Thrillers (Television programs)--Social aspects--United States.

Thrillers (Television programs).

Thrillers (Television programs)--History and criticism.

African American women on television.

Race on television.

Women on television.

Social aspects.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 406 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2019.

Summary:

""Gladiators in Suits" is a contributed volume that provides an opportunity to analyze the communication, politics, stereotypes, and genre techniques featured in the television series "Scandal" while raising key questions about the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and viewing audiences. The essays included range from critical looks at various members of Scandal's ensemble, to in-depth analyses of the show's central themes, to audience reception studies via interviews and social media analysis. Additionally, the volume contributes to research on femininity, masculinity, and representations of Black womanhood on television"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Olivia Pope, citizen of empire: gendered duties and sacrificial: violence on Scandal / Catherine R. Squires

Olivia Pope: "fixer" of necropolitical fallout / Nicholas Manganas

Scandal: a melodrama of social death / Patricia Ventura

The power of whiteness: disciplining Olivia Pope / Shantel Gabrieal Buggs and Ryessia Jones Russell

"Tangled skeins": Scandal's Olivia Pope and the counternarrativizing of black female enslavement / Ernest L. Gibson III

"You're nobody's victim, Liv": the scandal of black love and white hegemony in Scandal / Christopher A. House and Sean Eversley Bradwell

Insider/outsider: Olivia Pope and the pursuit of erotic power / Kadian Pow

#olitz: the erotics of (e)racing in Scandal / Kavyta Kay

A sisterhood of strategic convenience: Olivia Pope, Mellie Grant, and their scandalous entanglements / Tracey Owens Patton

Female gladiators and third wave feminism: visualizing power, choice, and dialogue in Scandal / Lara C. Stache and Rachel D. Davidson

Nimble readings: black women, meaning making, and negotiating womanhood through Scandal / Timeka N. Tounsel

Good black girls wear white: Olivia Pope and conflicted constructions of black female personhood / Kimberly Alecia Singletary

"It's handled!": critiquing the politics of respectability at the intersection of race and gender in Scandal / Tina M. Harris, Myra Washington, and Diamond M. Akers

Advocacy and normalcy: the politics of same-sex marriage in Scandal / Will Howell

"He exists because I say he exists": the (un)making of Fitz's manhood and the enduring adaptability of hegemonic masculinity / David Ponton III and Kelly Weber Stefonowich

"I can't fix this": reflections on Scandal's racial commentary in the "lawn chair" episode / Ronald L. Jackson II, Kimberly R. Moffitt, and Simone Adams.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Gladiators in suits

ISBN:

9780815636229

0815636229

9780815636403

0815636407

OCLC:

1098221154