Overview

This book examines the growing visibility and cultural legitimation of female showrunners and their productions in US television, presenting the role of women in the contemporary media landscape and analysing the feminist sensibility governing female storytelling in the 2010s. Focusing on a period when television appeared to be endorsing female authorship, the book explores female authorship in US television and unpacks the tensions around “visibility” as an indicator of social change. The book interrogates new emerging forms of feminism, as well as the discursive networks surrounding female authorship and their series, critically examining how women-led TV productions and their paratexts engage with feminist politics and contemporary discourses on gender, race, and LGBTQ+ identities. This book will interest scholars and students with research interests in gender and television, in particular those working on contemporary television; equality and diversity in the creative industries; televisual authorship; advertising, branding, and marketing of film and television productions; reception discourses; celebrity culture in the digital age as well as on the manifestations of feminism in popular culture.

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“Through her sharp analysis of several US television shows of the 2010s, Theresa Trimmel considers the extra-textual and textual significance of the woman television author, a figure that embodies the contradictions of postfeminism and popular feminism of the 21st century, while also redefining the gendering of ‘quality television’ in a period of increased attention to on-screen intersectionality in the midst of a constantly changing industry. This is an important contribution to contemporary feminist media studies and television studies”. Shelley Cobb, Professor of Film and Feminist Media Studies, University of Southampton. “This rich, up-to-the-minute account of authorship focuses on the seemingly ""game-changing"" emergence of the female showrunner as brand and creative force. Theresa Trimmel asks a provocative and productive question: does the rise of this figure straightforwardly index expanded roles and progressive representation for women in and on television?” Diane Negra, Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture, University College Dublin.

“Through her sharp analysis of several US television shows of the 2010s, Theresa Trimmel considers the extra-textual and textual significance of the woman television author, a figure that embodies the contradictions of postfeminism and popular feminism of the 21st century, while also redefining the gendering of ‘quality television’ in a period of increased attention to on-screen intersectionality in the midst of a constantly changing industry. This is an important contribution to contemporary feminist media studies and television studies”. Shelley Cobb, Professor of Film and Feminist Media Studies, University of Southampton. Professor Shelley Cobb Department of Film Studies School of Humanities Avenue Campus University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BF United Kingdom “This rich, up-to-the-minute account of authorship focuses on the seemingly ""game-changing"" emergence of the female showrunner as brand and creative force. Theresa Trimmel asks a provocative and productive question: does the rise of this figure straightforwardly index expanded roles and progressive representation for women in and on television?” Diane Negra, Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture, University College Dublin. Professor Diane Negra School of English, Drama and Film Belfield House University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4 Ireland

Author Information

Theresa Trimmel is Lecturer in Film and Television at the University of Bristol, UK.

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