ABSTRACT
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, Insecure, Looking, Silicon Valley, The Comeback, The Leftovers, True Detective and Veep and Vinyl, the 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|56 pages
Authorship, gender, reception
chapter 161|13 pages
Our bodies, our self(ies)
chapter 4|14 pages
Feminism, ‘dick’ jokes, & (re)defining masculinity
part II|54 pages
Race, place, power, risk
chapter 7|16 pages
Praising, erasing, replacing and race-ing Girls
chapter 8|10 pages
Forced devotion vs. acceptable doubt
part III|58 pages
Consumption, criticism, fandom