The Lifetime Network : essays on "Television for women" in the 21st century / edited by Emily L. Newman and Emily Witsell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Newman, Emily, editor.

Witsell, Emily, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television and women.

Lifetime (Television network).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Incorporated, Publishers, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This collection of new essays is the first to focus on Lifetime and the programs that helped define the network's brand that appeals to both viewers and advertisers. Series like Project Runway, Girlfriend Intervention and Army Wives are explored in depth. The contributors discuss the network's large opus of original films, as well at its online presence"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction; Note; Works Cited; Reality and Internet Programming; "What did we teach you?"; Racialized Sisterhood in Girlfriend Intervention; Historical Roots; Race and Audience; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; "You too can make your own Lifetime movie"; Branded Labor via Lifetime's Movie Mash-Ups; Fan-Made Videos: Women as Cultural Appropriators; Women as Consumers: Lifetime's Branding and Website History; Appropriating Women Producers: Lifetime Movie Mash-Ups; Conclusion; Note; Works Cited; "One day you're in and the next day you're out"; Making Project Runway Work from Bravo to Lifetime

NotesWorks Cited; Original Episodic Programming; Feminizing Militainment; Post/Post-Politics on Army Wives; Feminizing Militainment; Postfeminist Army; Postracial Army; Marching Orders; Notes; Works Cited; "In Extremis"; Unnatural Selection in Lifetime's Speculative Fictions; "Over, and over, and over, and over": Witches of East End's Essentialist Nature; A Brave New World? The Lottery's Biological Determinism; Survival of the Fittest?; Notes; Works Cited; Original Movies; "She needs some food"; Eating Disorders, Lifetime and the Made-for-TV Movie; Eating Disorder Film Tropes

"You're running heavy.""If you put it in, it stands to reason you can take it out."; "You lose some weight? You look good."; "The rumor is you aren't taking care of yourself."; "Wouldn't you die to be this skinny?"; "It's my brain, it's eating me alive."; "Ana's not your friend, Hannah. She is the devil in your ear."; Lifetime Versus Other Eating Disorder Films; Absence of Lifetime Eating Disorder Films Between 2004 and 2013; Conclusions; Chronological List of Lifetime and Made-for-TV Movies on Eating Disorders; Note; Works Cited; "Your Life. Your Time"

Addressing a Fractured Audience through DocudramaNote; Works Cited; Subversion of the Final Girl in Rape Revenge Narratives and the Normalization of Violence Against Women in The Tenth Circle and The Assault; The Final Girl on Lifetime; Lifetime's Rejection of the Limits of the Final Girls; Lifetime's Normalization of Violence Against Women; Conclusion; Works Cited; Conclusion-Lifetime at Thirty; Leading the Way for Women and Television; Notes; Works Cited; Bibliography; About the Contributors; List of Names and Terms

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 11, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4766-2459-3