Melissa Ames

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Time in Television Narrative

Exploring Temporality in Twenty-First-Century Programming

Edited by Melissa Ames
University Press of Mississippi

How shifts in time and storyline create narrative intrigue on television

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Hashtag Activism Interrogated and Embodied

Case Studies on Social Justice Movements

Utah State University Press

Hashtag Activism Interrogated and Embodied analyzes the ways that hashtags repurpose and reclaim societal narratives, considering how these digital interactions carry over into external spaces and are embodied by both participants and spectators alike.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Adventures in Shondaland

Identity Politics and the Power of Representation

Rutgers University Press

Shonda Rhimes is one of the most powerful players in contemporary American network television. Adventures in Shondaland critically explores Shonda Rhimes’s meteoric rise to stardom, her reign (or cultural appointment) as television’s diversity queen, and Shondaland’s almost-universally lauded melodramatic narratives.  

  • Copyright year: 2018
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