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Perspectives on Crazy ex-girlfriend : nuanced postnetwork television
- Title
- Perspectives on Crazy ex-girlfriend : nuanced postnetwork television / edited by Amanda Konkle and Charles Burnetts.
- Publication
- Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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- Description
- x, 310 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Created and helmed by female showrunners, featuring a diverse cast, and exploring mental health, gender and sexual identities, as well as media's influence on how we understand ourselves, "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" is a prime example of quality post-network television. The essays in this collection situate the show within the current television market, explore its genre-bending musical numbers as self-reflexive parodies, and argue for the show's groundbreaking treatments of mental health and sexual and gender identities"--
- Series Statement
- Television and pop culture
- Uniform Title
- Television and popular culture.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-302) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: "The situation is a lot more nuanced than that :" how Crazy ex-girlfriend defies peak TV / Amanda Konkle -- "Crazy for Crazy ex-girlfriend" : TV fandom and the critical reception of a "nutty" network series / Scott Diffrient -- Musicals have a place : navigating the television market with a crazy cult show / Chelsea McCracken -- Deconstructing crazy : Jewishness, neuroticism, and the stylized rom-com in Crazy ex-girlfriend / Charles Burnetts -- "The end of the movie" : Crazy ex-girlfriend and post-quality television / Billy Stevenson -- "This is what happy feels like" : the cripped narrative of Crazy exgirlfriend / Caitlin Ray -- "Lady, we're all gay!" : the math of homosocial triangles / Hazel Mackenzie -- "Getting bi" : Darryl Whitefeather as bisexual bellwether / Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman -- "The villain in my own story" : representations of depression and the spectatorial experience / Lauren Boumaroun -- "A diagnosis!!" : Crazy ex-girlfriend and the de-stigmatization of mental illness in the era of post-network television / Margaret Tally -- "Let us ugly cry" : spoofing emotional vulnerability in season three of Crazy ex-girlfriend / Stephanie Salerno -- Failure and the family in Crazy ex-girlfriend / Christine Prevas -- Crazy ex-girlfriend's female networks : from hacking and selfies to taking responsibility / Marija Laugalyte -- "Put yourself first in a sexy way" : metamodernist feminism in Crazy ex-girlfriend / Bibi Burger and Carel van Rooyen -- "I'm ravenous" : hunger for food, sex, and power in crazy ex-girlfriend / Christi Cook.
- Call Number
- MWGT 21-3501
- ISBN
- 9780815637042
- 0815637047
- 9780815637134
- 0815637136
- LCCN
- 2020050672
- OCLC
- 1224584257
- Title
- Perspectives on Crazy ex-girlfriend : nuanced postnetwork television / edited by Amanda Konkle and Charles Burnetts.
- Publisher
- Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Television and pop cultureTelevision and popular culture.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-302) and index.
- Added Author
- Konkle, Amanda, 1982- editor.Burnetts, Charles, editor.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Perspectives on Crazy ex-girlfriend. First edition Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2021 9780815655183 (DLC) 2020050673
- Research Call Number
- MWGT 21-3501