Gender and seriality : practices and politics of contemporary US television / Maria Sulimma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sulimma, Maria, 1985- author.

Series:

Screen serialities.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Screen Serialities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women on television.

Sex role on television.

Television programs--United States.

Television programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

Summary:

An exploration of how gender as a practice is generated by television narratives in the overlapping of text, reception and production, and the viewer practices that these narratives seek to trigger and draw on in the process.

Contents:

Intro

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Serial Genders, Gendered Serialities

Part I Serial TV Criticism and Girls

1 The Thinkpiece Seriality of Girls

2 Carousel: Gendering through Controversy

3 Navigating Discourses of Universality and Specificity: The (Feminist) Voice of a Generation?

Part II Television Audience Engagement and How to Get Away with Murder

4 The Looped Seriality of How to Get Away with Murder

5 Outward Spiral: Gendering through Recognisability

6 Evoking Discourses of Progressivism, Social Activism, and Identity Politics: Such an Important Episode!

Part III Television Authorship and The Walking Dead

7 The Paratext Seriality of The Walking Dead

8 Palimpsest: Gendering through Accountability

9 Neoliberalising Discourses of Serialised Survivalism: You Make It ... Until You Don't

Conclusion: Archiving Snapshots

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 5, 2022).

Previously issued in print: 2021.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Sulimma, Maria. Gender and Seriality.

ISBN:

1-4744-7398-9

1-4744-9524-9

1-4744-7397-0

OCLC:

1227387377