For more than 30 years, Lifetime has aired a broad range of programming, including original movies, sitcoms, dramas and reality shows. As other networks dedicated to women have come and gone, Lifetime continues to thrive in an ever-expanding cable marketplace, exploring such sensitive topics as race, commercialism, eating disorders, rape and domestic violence. 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…mehr
For more than 30 years, Lifetime has aired a broad range of programming, including original movies, sitcoms, dramas and reality shows. As other networks dedicated to women have come and gone, Lifetime continues to thrive in an ever-expanding cable marketplace, exploring such sensitive topics as race, commercialism, eating disorders, rape and domestic violence. 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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Emily L. Newman is associate professor of art history at Texas A&M University-Commerce, specializing in contemporary art, popular culture, and gender studies. She lives in McKinney, Texas. Emily Witsell is research librarian and coordinator of reference and instruction at Wofford College. She lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
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Table of Contents Introduction (Emily L. Newman and Emily Witsell) Part I: Reality and Internet Programming "What did we teach you?" Racialized Sisterhood in Girlfriend Intervention (Shelby L. Crosby and Susannah Bartlow) "You too can make your own Lifetime movie": Branded Labor via Lifetime's Movie Mash-Ups (Lindsay Giggey) "One day you're in and the next day you're out": Making Project Runway Work from Bravo to Lifetime (Emily Witsell) Part II: Original Episodic Programming Feminizing Militainment: Post/Post-Politics on Army Wives (Mary Douglas Vavrus) "In Extremis": Unnatural Selection in Lifetime's Speculative Fictions (Lisa K. Perdigao) Part III: Original Movies "She needs some food": Eating Disorders, Lifetime and the Made-for-TV Movie (Emily L. Newman) "Your Life. Your Time": Addressing a Fractured Audience through Docudrama (Staci Stutsman) Subversion of the Final Girl in Rape Revenge Narratives and the Normalization of Violence Against Women in The Tenth Circle and The Assault (Jenny Platz) Conclusion-Lifetime at Thirty: Leading the Way for Women and Television (Emily L. Newman) Bibliography About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Introduction (Emily L. Newman and Emily Witsell) Part I: Reality and Internet Programming "What did we teach you?" Racialized Sisterhood in Girlfriend Intervention (Shelby L. Crosby and Susannah Bartlow) "You too can make your own Lifetime movie": Branded Labor via Lifetime's Movie Mash-Ups (Lindsay Giggey) "One day you're in and the next day you're out": Making Project Runway Work from Bravo to Lifetime (Emily Witsell) Part II: Original Episodic Programming Feminizing Militainment: Post/Post-Politics on Army Wives (Mary Douglas Vavrus) "In Extremis": Unnatural Selection in Lifetime's Speculative Fictions (Lisa K. Perdigao) Part III: Original Movies "She needs some food": Eating Disorders, Lifetime and the Made-for-TV Movie (Emily L. Newman) "Your Life. Your Time": Addressing a Fractured Audience through Docudrama (Staci Stutsman) Subversion of the Final Girl in Rape Revenge Narratives and the Normalization of Violence Against Women in The Tenth Circle and The Assault (Jenny Platz) Conclusion-Lifetime at Thirty: Leading the Way for Women and Television (Emily L. Newman) Bibliography About the Contributors Index
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