Adventures in Shondaland

Contents
Introduction: Riding Shondaland’s Rollercoasters: Critical Cultural Television Studies in the 21st Century
Michaela D. E. Meyer and Rachel Alicia Griffin

Part I: Quality Television’s Cultural Dominance: The Auteur Comes to Television Studies
Chapter 1: Trauma, Spin, and Murder: The Carnival Spectacle in Shondaland
Richard G. Jones, Jr. and Emily Vajjala

Chapter 2: Wounded Detachments, Differential Alliances: Beyond Identity & Telos in Shondaland’s Heterotopia
Joan Faber McAlister

Chapter 3: Abortion in Shondaland: Daring Departures from Oppressive Industry Conventions
Jessica L. Furgerson

Chapter 4: Soundtracking Shondaland: Televisual Identity Mapped Through Music
Jennifer Billinson and Michaela D.E. Meyer

Part II: Shondaland’s Paradoxical Identity Politics and the Fantastical “Post-”
Chapter 5: Race (Lost and Found) in Shondaland: The Rise of Multiculuralism in Primetime Network Television
Jade Petermon

Chapter 6: Emb(Race)ing Visibility: Callie Torres’s (Im)Perfect Operation of Bisexuality on Grey’s Anatomy
Shadee Abdi and Bernadette Marie Calafell

Chapter 7: The Problematics of Postracial Colorblindness: Exploring Cristina Yang’s Asianness in Grey’s Anatomy
Stephanie L. Young and Vincent Pham

Chapter 8: Interracial Intimacies: From Shondaland to the Post-racial Promised Land
Myra Washington and Tina M. Harris

Part III: Consumption, Ethics, and Morality: Shondaland Fandom as Cultural Meaning Making
Chapter 9: #BlackLivesMatter on Scandal: Analyzing Divergent Fan Reactions to ‘The Lawn Chair’ Episode
Mark P. Orbe

Chapter 10: Blurring Production Boundaries with Fan Empowerment: Scandal as Social Television
Mary Ingram-Waters and Leslie Balderas

Chapter 11: Media Criticism & Morality Policing on Twitter: Fan Responses to How to Get Away with Murder
Melissa Ames

Chapter 12: Dying for the Next Episode: Living and Working Within Shondaland’s Medical Universe
Sean Swenson

Notes on Contributors
Index