McCollum / Monteverde HBO’s Original Voices

Race, Gender, Sexuality and Power
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-315-30690-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 198 Seiten

Reihe: The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture

This book constitutes the first major exploration of HBO's current programming, examined in the context of the transformation of American television and global society. With studies of well-known shows such as Game of Thrones, Girls, The Leftovers, Silicon Valley, True Detective, The Looking, Ballers and Vinyl, authors examine the trends in current programming, including the rise of queer characters, era-defining comedy, reinvented fantasy series, and the content’s new awareness of gender, sexuality and family dysfunction.

Interdisciplinary and international in scope, HBO’s New and Original Voices explores the sociocultural and political role and impact that HBO's current programmes have held and the ways in which it has translated and reinterpreted social discourses into its own televisual language. A significant intervention in television studies, media studies and cultural studies, this book illuminates the emergence of a new era of culturally relevant television that fans, students, and researchers will find lively, accessible and fascinating.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCollum, Victoria

Monteverde, Giuliana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, (Victoria McCollum and Giuliana Monteverde)

PART I Authorship, Gender and Reception

1. Social Media as Authorship and 'Selfveillance' in Girls, (Hannah Bonner)

2. The Rise and Fall of the HBO Empire: Vinyl and the Gender of TV Legitimation (Stéfany Boisvert)

3. HBO’s Other Woman’s Film: Olive Kitteridge and the Female Auteur, (Jodi Brooks)

4. It’s the Drama Gays Deserve: Boringness and the Critical Reception of Looking, (Dion Kagan)

PART II Race, Place, Power and Risk

5. 'Going White(Walker): Race, Politics and the Historical Imaginary in Game of Thrones, (Jana Matthews)

6. 'The Political, Personal and Postfeminism in Veep, (Kavyta Raghunandan)

7. Race and Place in Black and White: The False Dichotomy in True Detective, (Jessica Maucione)

8. 'I Hate Everyone Who Loves Me': Internalized Sexism as Nonconforming Performance of Feminism in HBO's Girls, (Kelley Holley)

9. Forced Devotion vs. Acceptable Doubt: The Leftovers as a Paradigm Shift for Religion in Popular Culture, (Kristen Nielsen Donnelly)

PART III Consumption, Criticism and Fandom

10. HBO’s Hall of Mirrors: The Comeback as Meta-Commentary on Television and Celebrity Culture, (Jennifer O’Meara)

11. Geeks, Freaks, Feminism and Capitalism: Satirizing the Tech World in Silicon Valley, (Amy Mackelden)

12. Marnie is the Worst: Antipathetic Characters in Contemporary HBO Programs, (Oliver Kroener)

13. The Last-night’s Watch: Game of Thrones, Contemporary Recap Culture, and HBO’s Continuing Legacy, (Andrew Lynch)

Über Autor(innen)

Victoria McCollum is Lecturer in Cinematic Arts in the School of Creative Arts and Technologies at Ulster University and has previously held positions at the BBC and ITV in Northern Ireland, and has worked for HBO, Time Warner Inc. She is the author of Post-9/11 Heartland Horror: Rural Horror Films in an Era of Urban Terrorism.

Giuliana Monteverde is completing her PhD at Ulster University.