Broadcasting Quality
Re-centering Feminist Discourse with The Good Wife
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12756199 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Taylor Nygaard (University of Denver), Jorie Lagerwey (0000-0001-7103-1179, University College Dublin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 105-113 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Television & New Media (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1527-4764 • E-ISSN: 1552-8316 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1527476416652485 |
| OpenAlex | W2419625673 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 11 |
This special issue is devoted to The Good Wife ( TGW) and unpacking the discursive divide between “quality” niche programming and mass entertainment broadcast programming. These essays question the conversations about quality swirling around a show that carries all the markers of prestige, but that also features the female protagonist, broadcast home, procedural roots, and soapiness often denigrated or overlooked by critics and academics alike. In response to the inherently gendered notions of quality, these essays re-center feminine subjects and interrogate masculinizing discourses through an array of approaches to a single series, analyzing TGW via the lenses of habitual mobile technologies, fashion, fantasy, and the labor of wifedom and motherhood. Analyzing this particular series through discourses of quality is not only a way to acknowledge a broadcast series within pre-existing standards of excellence but also a way to begin to reclaim television studies’ feminist roots from often hyper-masculine discussions of twenty-first-century quality TV
Advertising · Aesthetics · Art · Broadcasting (networking · Business · Entertainment · Epistemology · Excellence · Fantasy · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Political science · Prestige · Quality (philosophy · Sociology · Unpacking · Computer Science · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Media, Gender, and Advertising
Widening landscapes of TV storytelling in the digital media environment of the 21st century
Imagined Hillarys
Reese Witherspoon’s popular feminism
The quantification of diversity
De la qualité et des hommes
Intersectionality in quality feminist television
Wifeys, bitches, and sluts”
Shameless television
This is UnReal
Serialidade
The Recappables
The Politics of Female Anger in Older Age
Through the Gaps of My Fingers
Seriality
Managing expression and hand holding in The Good Wife
| Citations per year | 1.88 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |