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Collective Ink Creepiness
Book SynopsisA specter is haunting contemporary television-the specter of creepiness. In our everyday lives, we try to avoid creepiness at every cost, shunning creepy people and recoiling in horror at the idea that we ourselves might be creeps. And yet when we sit down to watch TV, we are increasingly entranced by creepy characters. In this follow-up to Awkwardness and Why We Love Sociopaths, Adam Kotsko tries to account for the strange fascination of creepiness. In addition to surveying a wide range of contemporary examples-from Peep Show to Girls, from Orange is the New Black to Breaking Bad-Kotsko mines the television of his 90s childhood, marveling at the creepiness that seemed to be hiding in plain sight in shows like Full House and Family Matters. Using Freud as his guide through the treacherous territory of creepiness, Kotsko argues that we are fascinated by the creepy because in our own ways, we are all creeps.
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Liverpool University Press Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek:
Book SynopsisThe first two seasons of Star Trek: Discovery, the newest instalment in the long-running and influential Star Trek franchise, received media and academic attention from the moment they arrived on screen. Discovery makes several key changes to Star Trek’s well-known narrative formulae, particularly the use of more serialized storytelling, appealing to audiences’ changed viewing habits in the streaming age – and yet the storylines, in their topical nature and the broad range of socio-political issues they engage with, continue in the political vein of the series’ megatext. This volume brings together eighteen essays and one interview about the series, with contributions from a variety of disciplines including cultural studies, literary studies, media studies, fandom studies, history and political science. They explore representations of gender, sexuality and race, as well as topics such as shifts in storytelling and depictions of diplomacy. Examining Discovery alongside older entries into the Star Trek canon and tracing emerging continuities and changes, this volume will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in Star Trek and science fiction in the franchise era.List of contributors: Sherryl Vint, Andrea Whiteacre, Torsten Kathke, John Andreas Fuchs, Ina Batzke, Sarah Böhlau, Will Tattersdill, Kerstin-Anja Münderlein, Diana Mafe, Whit Frazier Peterson, Henrik Schillinger, Arne Sönnichsen, Judith Rauscher, Amy C. Chambers, Mareike Spychala, Sabrina Mittermeier, Jennifer Volkmer, Si Sophie Pages Whybrew and Lisa Meinecke. Trade Review‘From the philosophy of time travel and alternate dimensions to the fraught politics of representation in contemporary film and television, Fighting for the Future sets scholarly coordinates for the series that has redefined Star Trek for the twenty-first century.’Gerry Canavan, Marquette University'This volume is a solid addition to the literature of Star Trek. As Discovery continues to chart its course alongside the other CBS productions... Scholars will reach for this book as the first collection of analyses of the new era, which had meaningfully differentiated itself from previous entries in the franchise.' Cait Coker, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts'The editors achieve a remarkable feat in this collection by providing a comprehensive look at a series still in development. … Mittermeier and Spychala end their text confident that the series has left the past in the past, while holding on to the franchise’s belief in a positive future.' Justice Hagan, Science Fiction Film and Television'Fighting for the Future is an interesting and engaging collection of essays that examines Star Trek: Discovery as a piece of media in and of itself, as well as a piece of a much larger cultural legacy. Like other essay collections of its type, it draws on scholars from diverse disciplines who put their own spin and flavor on their scholarship.' Jessica Seymour, Ancillary Review of Books'Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery is full of interesting, engaging, well-argued, and well-written chapters, and it should be considered an effective work of scholarship from which the fields of media, English, and American studies should get considerable worth.' Graham Minenor-Matheson, Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy ResearchTable of ContentsPrefaceSherryl Vint IntroductionSabrina Mittermeier & Mareike Spychala ‘Boldly Going Where No Series Has Gone Before?’ – Discovery’s Role Within The Franchise and Its DiscontentsLooking in the Mirror: The Negotiation of Franchise Identity in Star Trek: Discovery Andrea WhiteacreA Star Trek About Being Star Trek: History, Liberalism and Discovery’s Cold War Roots Torsten KathkeThe Conscience of the King – Or: Is There In Truth No Sex and Violence? John Andreas FuchsThese Are the Voyages?: The Post-Jubilee Trek Legacy on the Discovery, the Orville, and the Callister Michael G. Robinson‘Just as repetition reinforces repetition, change begets change’ – Modes of Storytelling in Canon and FanonFrom Series to Seriality: Star Trek’s Mirror Universe in the Post-Network Era Ina Batzke‘Lorca, I’m Really Gonna Miss Killing You’– The Fictional Space Created by Time Loop NarrativesSarah BöhlauDiscovery and the Form of Victorian Periodicals Will TattersdillTo Boldly Discuss: Socio-Political Discourses in Star Trek: Discovery Fanfiction Kerstin-Anja Münderlein‘Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations?’ – Negotiating Otherness in Star Trek: DiscoveryAfrofuturism, Imperialism, and IntersectionalityInterview on Normalizing Black Women as Heroes Diana MafeThe Cotton-Gin Effect: An Afrofuturist Reading of Star Trek: Discovery Whit Frazier PetersonThe American Hello: U.S. Representations of Diplomacy in Star Trek: Discovery Henrik Schillinger & Arne Sönnichsen‘Into A Mirror Darkly’: Border Crossing and Imperial(ist) Feminism in Star Trek: Discovery Judith RauscherInterrogating Gender Star Trek Discovers Women: Gender, Race, Science, and Michael Burnham Amy C. ChambersNot Your Daddy’s Star Trek: Exploring Female Characters in Star Trek: Discovery Mareike Spychala‘We Choose Our Own Pain. Mine Makes Me Remember’ – Gabriel Lorca, Ash Tyler and the Question of Masculinity Sabrina Mittermeier & Jennifer VolkmerQueering Star Trek ‘Never hide who you are’: Queer Representation and Actorvism in Star Trek: Discovery Sabrina Mittermeier & Mareike Spychala ‘I never met a female Michael before’: Star Trek: Discovery between Trans Potentiality and Cis Anxiety Si Sophie Pages WhybrewVeins and Muscles of the Universe: Posthumanism and Connectivity in Star Trek: Discovery Lisa Meinecke
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Liverpool University Press Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek:
Book SynopsisThe first two seasons of Star Trek: Discovery, the newest instalment in the long-running and influential Star Trek franchise, received media and academic attention from the moment they arrived on screen. Discovery makes several key changes to Star Trek’s well-known narrative formulae, particularly the use of more serialized storytelling, appealing to audiences’ changed viewing habits in the streaming age – and yet the storylines, in their topical nature and the broad range of socio-political issues they engage with, continue in the political vein of the series’ megatext. This volume brings together eighteen essays and one interview about the series, with contributions from a variety of disciplines including cultural studies, literary studies, media studies, fandom studies, history and political science. They explore representations of gender, sexuality and race, as well as topics such as shifts in storytelling and depictions of diplomacy. Examining Discovery alongside older entries into the Star Trek canon and tracing emerging continuities and changes, this volume will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in Star Trek and science fiction in the franchise era.List of contributors: Sherryl Vint, Andrea Whiteacre, Torsten Kathke, John Andreas Fuchs, Ina Batzke, Sarah Böhlau, Will Tattersdill, Kerstin-Anja Münderlein, Diana Mafe, Whit Frazier Peterson, Henrik Schillinger, Arne Sönnichsen, Judith Rauscher, Amy C. Chambers, Mareike Spychala, Sabrina Mittermeier, Jennifer Volkmer, Si Sophie Pages Whybrew and Lisa Meinecke. Trade Review‘From the philosophy of time travel and alternate dimensions to the fraught politics of representation in contemporary film and television, Fighting for the Future sets scholarly coordinates for the series that has redefined Star Trek for the twenty-first century.’Gerry Canavan, Marquette University'This volume is a solid addition to the literature of Star Trek. As Discovery continues to chart its course alongside the other CBS productions... Scholars will reach for this book as the first collection of analyses of the new era, which had meaningfully differentiated itself from previous entries in the franchise.' Cait Coker, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts'The editors achieve a remarkable feat in this collection by providing a comprehensive look at a series still in development. … Mittermeier and Spychala end their text confident that the series has left the past in the past, while holding on to the franchise’s belief in a positive future.' Justice Hagan, Science Fiction Film and Television'Fighting for the Future is an interesting and engaging collection of essays that examines Star Trek: Discovery as a piece of media in and of itself, as well as a piece of a much larger cultural legacy. Like other essay collections of its type, it draws on scholars from diverse disciplines who put their own spin and flavor on their scholarship.' Jessica Seymour, Ancillary Review of Books'Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery is full of interesting, engaging, well-argued, and well-written chapters, and it should be considered an effective work of scholarship from which the fields of media, English, and American studies should get considerable worth.' Graham Minenor-Matheson, Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy ResearchTable of ContentsPrefaceSherryl Vint IntroductionSabrina Mittermeier & Mareike Spychala ‘Boldly Going Where No Series Has Gone Before?’ – Discovery’s Role Within The Franchise and Its DiscontentsLooking in the Mirror: The Negotiation of Franchise Identity in Star Trek: Discovery Andrea WhiteacreA Star Trek About Being Star Trek: History, Liberalism and Discovery’s Cold War Roots Torsten KathkeThe Conscience of the King – Or: Is There In Truth No Sex and Violence? John Andreas FuchsThese Are the Voyages?: The Post-Jubilee Trek Legacy on the Discovery, the Orville, and the Callister Michael G. Robinson‘Just as repetition reinforces repetition, change begets change’ – Modes of Storytelling in Canon and FanonFrom Series to Seriality: Star Trek’s Mirror Universe in the Post-Network Era Ina Batzke‘Lorca, I’m Really Gonna Miss Killing You’– The Fictional Space Created by Time Loop NarrativesSarah BöhlauDiscovery and the Form of Victorian Periodicals Will TattersdillTo Boldly Discuss: Socio-Political Discourses in Star Trek: Discovery Fanfiction Kerstin-Anja Münderlein‘Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations?’ – Negotiating Otherness in Star Trek: DiscoveryAfrofuturism, Imperialism, and IntersectionalityInterview on Normalizing Black Women as Heroes Diana MafeThe Cotton-Gin Effect: An Afrofuturist Reading of Star Trek: Discovery Whit Frazier PetersonThe American Hello: U.S. Representations of Diplomacy in Star Trek: Discovery Henrik Schillinger & Arne Sönnichsen‘Into A Mirror Darkly’: Border Crossing and Imperial(ist) Feminism in Star Trek: Discovery Judith RauscherInterrogating Gender Star Trek Discovers Women: Gender, Race, Science, and Michael Burnham Amy C. ChambersNot Your Daddy’s Star Trek: Exploring Female Characters in Star Trek: Discovery Mareike Spychala‘We Choose Our Own Pain. Mine Makes Me Remember’ – Gabriel Lorca, Ash Tyler and the Question of Masculinity Sabrina Mittermeier & Jennifer VolkmerQueering Star Trek ‘Never hide who you are’: Queer Representation and Actorvism in Star Trek: Discovery Sabrina Mittermeier & Mareike Spychala ‘I never met a female Michael before’: Star Trek: Discovery between Trans Potentiality and Cis Anxiety Si Sophie Pages WhybrewVeins and Muscles of the Universe: Posthumanism and Connectivity in Star Trek: Discovery Lisa Meinecke
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Book SynopsisThis edited collection is the first book to offer a wide-ranging examination of the interface between American independent film and a converged television landscape that consists of terrestrial broadcasters, cable networks and streaming providers, in which independent film and television intersect in complex, multifaceted and creative ways.The book covers the long history of continuities and connections between the two sectors, as seen in the activities of PBS, HBO or Sundance. It considers the movement of filmmakers between indie film and TV such as Steven Soderbergh, Rian Johnson, the Duplass brothers, Joe Swanberg, Lynn Shelton and Gregg Araki; details the confluence of aesthetic and thematic elements seen in shows such as Girls, Breaking Bad, Master of None, or Glow; points to a shared interest in regional sensibilities evident in shows like One Mississippi or Fargo; and makes the case for documentaries and web series as significaTrade Review"Indie TV is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of the interrelationships between media industries. Lyons and Tzioumakis have assembled a formidable group of scholars to make the powerful collective argument that cinema and television are, and always have been, inseparable. The many layers of indie TV revealed within will inspire film and TV historians, as well as those analyzing contemporary digital media and production cultures."Jennifer Holt, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA"When I praised this book to a non-academic friend, he readily and enthusiastically rattled off titles of multi-season and limited-episode series that immediately came to mind as cutting-edge examples of 'indie TV' and its cultural reach and resonance. Clearly, 'indie TV' has public purchase, and this far-ranging anthology, strong equally in conceptualization and industrial and aesthetic analysis, pinpoints why. The volume offers rich examples, sharp and smart insight, and welcome attention to diversity, on-screen and behind, around gender, race, ethnicity."Dana Polan, Cinema Studies, NYU, USATable of ContentsPart 1: Indie Film and Television: Historical Relationships 1. Indie (Film on) TV: A Tale of two very Close Friends 2. Same Word, Different Medium: The Evolution of Indie TV since the 2000s’ Part 2: Indie Film and Television: Industrial Continuities 3. (Re-)Branding Sundance: Entering the Indie TV Market 4. Packaging the 'Purest' form of Indie TV: Michael Sugar, Talent Management and Indie-Auteur Clients’ 5. ‘The Things That Keep Us Up at Night’: Blumhouse Television and Indie Horror’s Small Screen Dispersal Part 3: Filmmakers Migration from Indie Film to TV (and back) 6. From Brick to Breaking Bad: ‘Quality’ Television Style, Authorship and ‘Cinematic’ Status 7. Mumblecore’s Second Act: Millennial Indie Moviemaking’s Migration to Television 8. Apocalyptic Visions and Commercial Constraints: Gregg Araki’s Negotiation of Emerging Modes of Indie TV Auteurship Part 4: Indie TV: Aesthetic and Institutional Trajectories 9. Prestige TV, Comedy, and the Indie Aesthetic 10. Netflix, Race and Cinephilia: Master of None and Indie TV 11. 'It may Be Where the Future of Independent Production Is Happening': Netflix and Indie Aesthetics in GLOW 12. Affect, Tabloid Reality TV and Indie Cinema Part 5: Indie TV and Regional Sensibilities 13. Fargo (2014-2020): Indie Cinema, Midwest Mobsters, and Indie TV 14. Gender, Family, and Therapeutic Regionalism in One Mississippi Part 6: Indie TV and Alternative Practices 15. Indie TV in the Streaming Era 16. Web Series as Indie TV: Intersectional Identities and Intersecting Media 17. ‘A Decade of Distinction’: A&E IndieFilms and the Channelling of Documentary
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Book SynopsisHow can we queerly theorise and understand television? How can the realms of television studies and queer theory be brought together, in a manner beneficial and productive for both? Queer TV: Theories, Histories, Politics is the first book to explore television in all its scope and complexity â its industry, production, texts, audiences, pleasures and politics â in relation to queerness. With contributions from distinguished authors working in film/television studies and the study of gender/sexuality, it offers a unique contribution to both disciplines.An introductory chapter by the editors charts the key debates and issues addressed within the book, followed by three sections, each central to an understanding of the relationships between queerness and television: 'theories and approaches', histories and genres', and 'television itself'. Individual essays examine the relationships between queers, queerness, and television across the multiple sites of productioTrade Review'In examining the complexity of television - more than simply queer television - then the book is well placed in terms of the important contributions it makes to debates about industry, production, audiences and politics' - Times Higher Education Supplement, 6th August 2009 (Reviewer: Tony Purvis, University of Newcastle, UK)Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Pleasures of the Tube Glyn Davis and Gary Needham Part I: Theories and Approaches 1. Epistemology of the Console Lynne Joyrich 2. Ethereal Queer: Notes on Method Amy Villarejo 3. Towards Queer Television Theory: Bigger Pictures sans the Sweet Queer-After Michele Aaron Part II: Histories and Genres 4. One Queen and His Screen: Lesbian and Gay Television Andy Medhurst 5. ‘We’re Not All So Obvious’: Masculinity and Queer (In)Visibility in American Network Television of the 1970s Joe Wlodarz 6. ‘Something for Everyone’: Lesbian and Gay ‘Magazine’ Programming on British Television, 1980-2000 Greg Woods 7. Guy Love: A Queer Straight Masculinity for a Post-Closet Era? Ron Becker Part III: Television Itself 8. Scheduling Normativity: Television, The Family, and Queer Temporality Gary Needham 9. Cruising the Channels: The Queerness of Zapping Jaap Kooijman 10. Hearing Queerly: Television’s Dissident Sonics Glyn Davis
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