[ecrea] CFP: The Good Wife (CBS 2008 - ) a special issue of the journal Television and New Media

*CFP: /The Good Wife/ (CBS 2008 - ) a special issue of the journal
/Television and New Media/***

This proposed special issue of the journal /Television and New Media/
seeks papers exploring the CBS primetime drama /The Good Wife /(/TGW/).
With its central female protagonist, strong ensemble cast, and broadcast
home on a network often considered a conservative outlet for
conventional sitcoms and procedurals, /TGW/ is a particularly rich text
through which to explore the increasingly gendered discourses of
“quality TV” and the dynamic state of hour-long TV dramas. Responding to
the focal shift in current television scholarship away from broadcast
television, we seek proposals that are interested in reconsidering the
role of broadcast television in the post-network era and/or recouping
the feminist foundations of television studies and its disciplinary
agendas.

Over the course of 6 seasons, with its unique blend of serial and
procedural storytelling, /The Good Wife/ expands the clichéd “good
wife,” or melodrama’s martyred “coping woman,” with a contradictory and
mercurial characterization of a woman whose liberation and corruption
are increasingly intertwined. Yet, despite this unique characterization,
as well as the show’s acute political timeliness and sharp critiques of
political institutions and our contemporary technological lives, the
popular and ratings-successful CBS network drama remains on the
periphery of conversations about “quality TV” and the legitimizing
forces of TV’s new Golden Age. Using this complex and dynamic network
drama as its focus, this special issue seeks papers from diverse
methodological perspectives on a variety of subjects, including but not
limited to:

  * Narrative structure & genre
  * Televisual form & Aesthetics
  * Celebrity & Performance
  * Authorship & Industry-Audience dynamics
  * The impact of business models on storytelling
  * Technology & Surveillance
  * Politics, Campaigning, & Political discourse
  * Race, class, gender & sexuality
  * Recession-Era media trends
  * Discourses of Quality
  * Broadcasting History & TV Studies Historiography
  * Functions of Wardrobe & Fashion
  * Representations of Religion

Abstracts of 350 words or less should be submitted for consideration to
the editors, Taylor Nygaard (taylor.nygaard /at/ du.edu)
<mailto:(taylor.nygaard /at/ du.edu)>and Jorie Lagerwey (jorie.lagerwey /at/ ucd.ie)
<mailto:(jorie.lagerwey /at/ ucd.ie)> by *May 15^th 2015*. If accepted, final
papers of 7,500 words or less will be due October 1, 2015.



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