Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Adams, Simone
2. Moffitt, Kimberly R.
3. Jackson, Ronald L., 1970-

Description

1. xii, 406 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

1. ""Gladiators in Suits" is a contributed volume that provides an opportunity to analyze the communication, politics, stereotypes, and genre techniques featured in the television series "Scandal" while raising key questions about the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and viewing audiences. The essays included range from critical looks at various members of Scandal's ensemble, to in-depth analyses of the show's central themes, to audience reception studies via interviews and social media analysis. Additionally, the volume contributes to research on femininity, masculinity, and representations of Black womanhood on television"--

Series statement

1. Television and popular culture

Uniform title

1. Television and popular culture.

Subject

1. Thrillers (Television programs)
2. Women on television
3. Thrillers (Television programs) > Social aspects > United States
4. Race on television
5. African American women on television
6. Scandal (Television program)
7. Thrillers (Television programs) > History and criticism
8. United States
9. Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Olivia Pope, citizen of empire: gendered duties and sacrificial: violence on Scandal / Catherine R. Squires -- Olivia Pope: "fixer" of necropolitical fallout / Nicholas Manganas -- Scandal: a melodrama of social death / Patricia Ventura -- The power of whiteness: disciplining Olivia Pope / Shantel Gabrieal Buggs and Ryessia Jones Russell -- "Tangled skeins": Scandal's Olivia Pope and the counternarrativizing of black female enslavement / Ernest L. Gibson III -- "You're nobody's victim, Liv": the scandal of black love and white hegemony in Scandal / Christopher A. House and Sean Eversley Bradwell -- Insider/outsider: Olivia Pope and the pursuit of erotic power / Kadian Pow -- #olitz: the erotics of (e)racing in Scandal / Kavyta Kay -- A sisterhood of strategic convenience: Olivia Pope, Mellie Grant, and their scandalous entanglements / Tracey Owens Patton -- Female gladiators and third wave feminism: visualizing power, choice, and dialogue in Scandal / Lara C. Stache and Rachel D. Davidson -- Nimble readings: black women, meaning making, and negotiating womanhood through Scandal / Timeka N. Tounsel -- Good black girls wear white: Olivia Pope and conflicted constructions of black female personhood / Kimberly Alecia Singletary -- "It's handled!": critiquing the politics of respectability at the intersection of race and gender in Scandal / Tina M. Harris, Myra Washington, and Diamond M. Akers -- Advocacy and normalcy: the politics of same-sex marriage in Scandal / Will Howell -- "He exists because I say he exists": the (un)making of Fitz's manhood and the enduring adaptability of hegemonic masculinity / David Ponton III and Kelly Weber Stefonowich -- "I can't fix this": reflections on Scandal's racial commentary in the "lawn chair" episode / Ronald L. Jackson II, Kimberly R. Moffitt, and Simone Adams.

Call number

1. Sc E 20-429

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Gladiators in suits : race, gender, and the politics of representation in Scandal / edited by Simone Adams, Kimberly R. Moffitt, and Ronald L. Jackson II.

Publisher

1. Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2019.

Copyright date

1. ©2019

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Television and popular culture
2. Television and popular culture.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Adams, Simone, editor.
2. Moffitt, Kimberly R., editor.
3. Jackson, Ronald L., 1970- editor.

LCCN

1. 2019016746

ISBN

1. 9780815636229 (hardcover alkaline paper)
2. 0815636229 (hardcover alkaline paper)

Research call number

1. Sc E 20-429