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[Commlist] special issue “Ryan Murphy: Gender, Genre, Authorship” (Vol. 36, 2022) published

Tue Oct 18 22:07:51 GMT 2022





“Ryan Murphy: Gender, Genre, Authorship” (Vol. 36, 2022) edited by Jessica Ford, Melanie Robson and Phoebe Macrossan,Refractory: A Journal of Media and Entertainment

We are very pleased to announce the publication of a special issueof Refractory: A Journal of Media and Entertainment: “Ryan Murphy: Gender, Genre, Authorship” edited by Jessica Ford, Melanie Robsonand Phoebe Macrossan.

Ryan Murphy exemplifies the modern US TV mogul, operating as an executive producer, creator, showrunner, writer, and director on a wide range of series over the last twenty-two years.In addition to being prolific, Murphy’s TV outputs are also diverse in form, genre, and distribution. They are also united through a suite of stylistic, tonaland aesthetic similarities that make it possible to see his work as a cohesive whole.This special issue investigates the key concerns, forms, and central questions of Murphy’s television oeuvre, paying close attention to how and why his creative and business decisions have made him so powerful in the current television and subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) environment.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

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    Editorial:Ryan Murphy: Genre, Gender and Authorship by Jessica Ford,
    Melanie Robsonand Phoebe Macrossan

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    ShowrunningActivism: Embodying Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the
    Work of Ryan Murphy by Sarah E. S. Sinwell

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    Cycles of Style and Violence: The Attention Economies of Televisual
    Pleasure in American Horror Storyby Holly Eva Katherine Randell-Moon

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    Glee, ‘Quality’ Teen Television, and the Screen Musical in the
    Twenty-First Century by Phoebe Macrossan

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    Heartbreakers/Brand Makers: Ryan Murphy, Larry Kramer’sThe Normal
    Heart,and HBO’s Politics of AIDS by Ben Kruger-Robbins

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    Wielding the Knife: Genre Intervention in American Horror Story:
    1984by Melanie Robson

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    My Roanoke Nightmare: Transmedia Aesthetics in Contemporary Horror
    by Emily M. Sobel

https://refractoryjournal.net/special-issue-ryan-murphy-genre-gender-and-authorship/ <https://refractoryjournal.net/special-issue-ryan-murphy-genre-gender-and-authorship/>

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