[csaa-forum] “Ryan Murphy: Gender, Genre, Authorship” (Vol. 36, 2022) edited by Jessica Ford, Melanie Robson and Phoebe Macrossan, Refractory: A Journal of Media and Entertainment

[Phoebe Macrossan]

“Ryan Murphy: Gender, Genre, Authorship” (Vol. 36, 2022) edited by Jessica
Ford, Melanie Robson and Phoebe Macrossan, Refractory: A Journal of Media
and Entertainment



We are very pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of
Refractory:
A Journal of Media and Entertainment: “Ryan Murphy: Gender, Genre,
Authorship” edited by Jessica Ford, Melanie Robson and Phoebe Macrossan.



Ryan Murphy exemplifies the modern US TV mogul, operating as an executive
producer, creator, showrunner, writer, and director on a wide range of
series over the last twenty-two years. In addition to being prolific,
Murphy’s TV outputs are also diverse in form, genre, and distribution. They
are also united through a suite of stylistic, tonal and aesthetic
similarities that make it possible to see his work as a cohesive whole. This
special issue investigates the key concerns, forms, and central questions
of Murphy’s television oeuvre, paying close attention to how and why his
creative and business decisions have made him so powerful in the current
television and subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) environment.



TABLE OF CONTENTS:

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   Editorial: Ryan Murphy: Genre, Gender and Authorship by Jessica Ford,
   Melanie Robson and Phoebe Macrossan


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   Showrunning Activism: Embodying Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Work
   of Ryan Murphy by Sarah E. S. Sinwell
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   Cycles of Style and Violence: The Attention Economies of Televisual
   Pleasure in American Horror Story by Holly Eva Katherine Randell-Moon
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   Glee, ‘Quality’ Teen Television, and the Screen Musical in the
   Twenty-First Century by Phoebe Macrossan
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   Heartbreakers/Brand Makers: Ryan Murphy, Larry Kramer’s The Normal
Heart, and
   HBO’s Politics of AIDS by Ben Kruger-Robbins
   -

   Wielding the Knife: Genre Intervention in American Horror Story: 1984 by
   Melanie Robson


   -

   My Roanoke Nightmare: Transmedia Aesthetics in Contemporary Horror by
   Emily M. Sobel



https://refractoryjournal.net/special-issue-ryan-murphy-genre-gender-and-authorship/




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