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Author:   Emily L. Newman ,  Emily Witsell
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.299kg
ISBN:  

9780786498307

ISBN 10:   0786498307
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   11 April 2016
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

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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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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