Gender and Seriality

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In this timely, important, intervention in gender and media studies, Maria Sulimma focuses on television's re-positioning in recent years as a site of great gender complexity and virtuosic seriality. She works from a very full definition of the medium that encompasses DVD extras, interviews, recaps and fan discourse. * Diane Negra, University College Dublin * Gender and Seriality is a provocative text, offering an interdisciplinary, intersectional methodology that deepens both the disciplines of gender studies and media studies through sophisticated analyses of seriality. Its accessible language, cogent formulations, and stimulating proposals will make excellent reading for anyone interested in gender and media. -- Briand Gentry * Global Storytelling * This is a densely argued book, weaving a complex tapestry of concepts and metaphorical categories which Sulimma uses to explore 'the processes by which serial television develops gendered identities and how these processes rely on different modes of audience feedback' (p. 217). It is beautifully written and all three case studies are satisfyingly detailed and nuanced. -- Sofia Bull * Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies * [Offers a] compelling study of the social impact of seriality and serves as a starting point to inspire further scholarship in the multidisciplinary study of serial television. -- Briand Gentry * Global Storytelling *