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    Adventures in Shondaland
    Identity Politics and the Power of Representation

    Rachel Alicia Griffin (Edited by), Michaela D.E. Meyer (Edited by), Michaela D.E. Meyer (Contributions by), Rachel Alicia Griffin (Contributions by), Richard G Jones (Contributions by), Emily Vajjala (Contributions by), Joan Faber McAlister (Contributions by), Jessica L Furgerson (Contributions by), Jennifer Billinson (Contributions by), Jade Petermon (Contributions by), Shadee Abdi (Contributions by), Bernadette Calafell (Contributions by), Stephanie Young (Contributions by), Vincent Pham (Contributions by), Myra Washington (Contributions by), Tina Harris (Contributions by), Mark P Orbe (Contributions by), Mary Ingram-Waters (Contributions by), Leslie Balderas (Contributions by), Melissa Ames (Contributions by), Sean Swenson (Contributions by)

    9780813596327

    Hardback, published 10 September 2018

    278 pages, 5 tables
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.513 kg

    "Full of sophisticated analysis, this comprehensive and robust edited collection explores a diverse range of topics, including identity, representation, fandom, the media industry, and reception/meaning-making. Adventures in Shondaland is an impressive, necessary contribution to scholarship."
    - Robin R. Means Coleman (coeditor of Fight the Power! The Spike Lee Reader)
    "This is a must-read collection of research and essays on the showrunner whose shows have transformed must-see TV in the age of social media. Insightful, critical—and fun."
    - Catherine R. Squires (author of The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century) (Chronicle of Higher Education)
    " Recommended."
    (Choice) (With Good Reason Radio)
    "Offers a thorough account of the complex politics of representation in Shondaland and offers important insights for readers in television studies, feminist media studies and critical race studies."
    (Critical Studies in Television)

    Innovator Award for Edited Collection from the Central States Communication Association (CSCA)

    Shonda Rhimes is one of the most powerful players in contemporary American network television. Beginning with her break-out hit series Grey’s Anatomy, she has successfully debuted Private Practice, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, The Catch, For The People, and Station 19. Rhimes’s work is attentive to identity politics, “post-” identity politics, power, and representation, addressing innumerable societal issues. Rhimes intentionally addresses these issues with diverse characters and story lines that center, for example, on interracial friendships and relationships, LGBTIQ relationships and parenting, the impact of disability on familial and work dynamics, and complex representations of womanhood. This volume serves as a means to theorize Rhimes’s contributions and influence by inspiring provocative conversations about television as a deeply politicized institution and exploring how Rhimes fits into the implications of twenty-first century television.

    Contents
    Introduction: Riding Shondaland’
    s Rollercoasters: Critical Cultural Television Studies in the 21st Century
    Michaela D. E. Meyer and Rachel Alicia Griffin

    Part I: Quality Television’
    s Cultural Dominance: The Auteur Comes to Television Studies
    Chapter 1: Trauma, Spin, and Murder: The Carnival Spectacle in Shondaland
    Richard G. Jones, Jr. and Emily Vajjala

    Chapter 2: Wounded Detachments, Differential Alliances: Beyond Identity &
    Telos in Shondaland’
    s Heterotopia
    Joan Faber McAlister

    Chapter 3: Abortion in Shondaland: Daring Departures from Oppressive Industry Conventions
    Jessica L. Furgerson

    Chapter 4: Soundtracking Shondaland: Televisual Identity Mapped Through Music
    Jennifer Billinson and Michaela D.E. Meyer

    Part II: Shondaland’
    s Paradoxical Identity Politics and the Fantastical “
    Post-”

    Chapter 5: Race (Lost and Found) in Shondaland: The Rise of Multiculuralism in Primetime Network Television
    Jade Petermon

    Chapter 6: Emb(Race)ing Visibility: Callie Torres’
    s (Im)Perfect Operation of Bisexuality on Grey’
    s Anatomy
    Shadee Abdi and Bernadette Marie Calafell

    Chapter 7: The Problematics of Postracial Colorblindness: Exploring Cristina Yang’
    s Asianness in Grey’
    s Anatomy
    Stephanie L. Young and Vincent Pham

    Chapter 8: Interracial Intimacies: From Shondaland to the Post-racial Promised Land
    Myra Washington and Tina M. Harris

    Part III: Consumption, Ethics, and Morality: Shondaland Fandom as Cultural Meaning Making
    Chapter 9: #BlackLivesMatter on Scandal: Analyzing Divergent Fan Reactions to ‘
    The Lawn Chair’
    Episode
    Mark P. Orbe

    Chapter 10: Blurring Production Boundaries with Fan Empowerment: Scandal as Social Television
    Mary Ingram-Waters and Leslie Balderas

    Chapter 11: Media Criticism &
    Morality Policing on Twitter: Fan Responses to How to Get Away with Murder
    Melissa Ames

    Chapter 12: Dying for the Next Episode: Living and Working Within Shondaland’
    s Medical Universe
    Sean Swenson

    Notes on Contributors
    Index
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