Research Catalog

Title

HBO's original voices : race, gender, sexuality and power / [edited by] Victoria McCollum and Giuliana Monteverde.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

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Additional Authors

• McCollum, Victoria
• Monteverde, Giuliana

Description

xi, 185 pages; 24 cm

Summary

This book constitutes the first major exploration of HBO's current programming, examined in the context of the transformation of American television and global society. With studies of well-known shows such as Game of Thrones, Girls, The Leftovers, Silicon Valley, True Detective, The Looking, Ballers and Vinyl, authors examine the trends in current programming, including the rise of queer characters, era-defining comedy, reinvented fantasy series, and the content's new awareness of gender, sexuality and family dysfunction. Interdisciplinary and international in scope, HBO's New and Original Voices explores the sociocultural and political role and impact that HBO's current programmes have held and the ways in which it has translated and reinterpreted social discourses into its own televisual language. A significant intervention in television studies, media studies and cultural studies, this book illuminates the emergence of a new era of culturally relevant television that fans, students, and researchers will find lively, accessible and fascinating.

Series Statement

The cultural politics of media and popular culture

Uniform Title

Cultural politics of media and popular culture.

Subjects

• Race on television
• Home Box Office (Firm)
• Sex on television
• Sex role on television
• Television programs > Social aspects United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / by Giuliana Monteverde and Victoria McCollum -- Authorship, gender, reception. Our bodies, our self(ies): mediating and mitigating social media and selfveillance in Girls / by Hannah Bonner -- The rise and fall of the HBO Empire: vinyl and the gender of TV legitimation / by Stéfany Boisvert -- Queer fantasies, queer echoes: the post-closet world of looking / by Nicholas Manganas -- Feminism, "dick" jokes, & (re)defining masculinity: satirising the tech world in Silicon Valley / by Amy MacKelden -- Race, place, power, risk. The personal and political: exploring comedic masculinity and femininity in Veep / by Carrie Hou, Nathan Stewart and Elena Chabbi -- Race and place in black and white: the false dichotomy in True detective / by Jessica Maucione -- Praising, erasing, replacing and race-ing Girls -- intersectional online critiques and the ascent of insecure / by Francesca Sobande -- Forced devotion vs. acceptable doubt: the leftovers as a paradigm shift for religion in popular culture / by Kristen Donnelly -- Consumption, criticism, fandom. HBO's hall of mirrors: the comeback as meta-commentary on television and celebrity culture / by Jennifer O'Meara -- Marnie is the worst: antipathetic characters in contemporary HBO programs / by Oliver Kroener -- The last-night's watch Game of thrones, contemporary recap culture, and HBO's continuing legacy / Andrew Lynch -- Tone deaf?: Game of thrones, showrunners and criticism / by Shiloh Carroll.

Call Number

MWGT 18-4566

ISBN

• 9781138234444
• 1138234443

LCCN

2017054404

OCLC

1019836800

Title

HBO's original voices : race, gender, sexuality and power / [edited by] Victoria McCollum and Giuliana Monteverde.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The cultural politics of media and popular culture

Cultural politics of media and popular culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

McCollum, Victoria, editor.

Monteverde, Giuliana, editor.

Research Call Number

MWGT 18-4566