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Author:   Verena Bernardi (Saarland University, Germany) ,  Amanda D. Giammanco (Saarland University, Germany) ,  Heike Mißler (Saarland University, Germany)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032456683

ISBN 10:   103245668
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   21 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Introduction: The Pandemic Will be Televised 1. Voice/lessness and Ventrolloquism: Girls’ Creative and Collective Resistance to Masculine ‘Leadership Theatre’ in Covid-era News 2. Captive Audiences: Quarantining with Tiger King 3. @Night@Home: YouTubifying Late-Night Television during the Early Stages of the Covid-19 Pandemic 4. Exploiting Opportunities and Exposing Inequalities: Telling Covid-19 Stories in Host (2020), Mythic Quest (2020–) and For Life (2020-2021) 5. Inside Bo Burnham: Timelessly Capturing the Zeitgeist 6. Navigating the Covid-19 Pandemic as Essential Workers in Superstore 7. “Give me liberty and give me death” – The Representation of the Pandemic in Medical Drama: Covid-19 Plotlines in Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19, and The Good Doctor 8.The Pandemic at the Intersection of the Political and the Surreal: Covid-19, Systemic Racism, and the Gothic on The Good Fight

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Verena Bernardi is a senior lecturer and academic administrator in the English Department at Saarland University, Germany. Her research interests include vampire studies, cultural studies (North America and Scotland), television studies and fandom studies. She is the author of Us versus Them, or We? Post-2000 Vampiric Reflections of Family, Home and Hospitality in True Blood and The Originals. Among others, she has published in Hospitality, Rape and Consent in Vampire Popular Culture (2017) and is a coeditor of All Around Monstrous (2019). Amanda D. Giammanco is cofounder of and coordinator for Saarland University’s English Writing Center. She is also a PhD student working on American national identity formation and television in the mid- to late-twentieth century. Her research interests include postwar suburbanization, critical whiteness studies, critical race studies, American cultural history, and media studies, as well as rhetoric and narratology. Heike Mißler is a senior lecturer in British literary and cultural studies at Saarland University. Her research interests include gender and queer theory, feminist theory, critical race studies, critical whiteness studies, popular romance studies, TV and film studies, and posthumanism. She is the author of The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit: Popular Fiction, Postfeminism and Representation (2017).

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