[Commlist] New book: Female Authorship in Contemporary US Television: When Women Run the Show

Theresa Trimmel is happy to announce that the book /_Female Authorship 
in Contemporary US Television: When Women Run the Show 
<file:///Female%20Authorship%20in%20Contemporary%20US%20Television/%20When%20Women%20Run%20the%20Show>_/ is 
now out and available in hardback and e-book.

The book examines the growing visibility and cultural legitimation of 
female showrunners and their productions in US television, presenting 
the role of women in the contemporary media landscape and analysing the 
feminist sensibility governing female storytelling in the 2010s.

Focusing on a period when television appeared to be endorsing female 
authorship, the book explores female authorship in US television and 
unpacks the tensions around “visibility” as an indicator of social 
change. The book interrogates new emerging forms of feminism, as well as 
the discursive networks surrounding female authorship and their series, 
critically examining how women-led TV productions and their paratexts 
engage with feminist politics and contemporary discourses on gender, 
race, and LGBTQ+ identities.

*_Reviews:_*

/“Through her sharp analysis of several US television shows of the 
2010s, Theresa Trimmel considers the extra-textual and textual 
significance of the woman television author, a figure that embodies the 
contradictions of postfeminism and popular feminism of the 21st century, 
while also redefining the gendering of ‘quality television’ in a period 
of increased attention to on-screen intersectionality in the midst of a 
constantly changing industry. This is an important contribution to 
contemporary feminist media studies and television studies”./

Shelley Cobb, Professor of Film and Feminist Media Studies, University 
of Southampton.

/“This rich, up-to-the-minute account of authorship focuses on the 
seemingly "game-changing" emergence of the female showrunner as brand 
and creative force.  Theresa Trimmel asks a provocative and productive 
question:  does the rise of this figure straightforwardly index expanded 
roles and progressive representation for women in and on television?”/

Diane Negra, Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture, University 
College Dublin.

*_Table of contents:_*

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1. Introduction: The Rise of Female Authorship in US Television

2. The Construction of Female Authorship in US Television

3. Is This What “Feminism” Looks Like?: Female Authorship and the 
Representation of Women in “Feminist” Television

4. Intersectional Female Authorship, Casting Strategies, and the 
Representation of Women of Colour in Female-Authored Television

  5. Intersectional Authorship and LGBTQ+ Representation in 
Women-Centred Television

6. “The Rise of the Millennial Sitcom”: Millennial Authorship and 
Self-Representation in Female-Authored Television

7. Conclusion: The End of Feminist Television?


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