Full Description
Since its 2013 premiere, Orange Is the New Black has become Netflix's most watched series, garnering critical praise and numerous awards and advancing the cultural phenomenon of binge-watching. Academic conferences now routinely feature panels discussing the show, and the book on which it is based is popular course material at many universities. Yet little work has been published on OINTB.
The series has sparked debate: does it celebrate diversity or is it told from the perspective of white privilege, with characters embodying some of the most racist and sexist stereotypes in television history? This collection of new essays is the first to analyze the show's multiple layers of meaning. Examining Orange Is the New Black from a number of feminist perspectives, the contributors cover topics such as gender, race, class, sexuality, transgenderism, mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex, disability, and sexual assault.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Is Orange the New Black? (April Kalogeropoulos Householder and Adrienne Trier-Bieniek)
"Chocolate and vanilla swirl, swi-irl": Race and Lesbian Identity Politics (Sarah E. Fryett)
We Will Survive: Race and Gender-Based Trauma as Cultural Truth Telling (Kalima Y. Young)
Jenji Kohan's Trojan Horse: Subversive Uses of Whiteness (Katie Sullivan Barak)
"You don't look full ... Asia": The Invisible and Ambiguous Bodies of Chang and Soso (Minjeong Kim)
Cleaning Up Your Act: Surveillance, Queer Sex and the Imprisoned Body (Yvonne Swartz Hammond)
The Transgender Tipping Point: The Social Death of Sophia Burset (Hilary Malatino)
All in the (Prison) Family: Genre Mixing and Queer Representation (Kyra Hunting)
Pennsatucky's Teeth and the Persistence of Class (Susan Sered)
Pleasure and Power Behind Bars: Resisting Necropower with Sexuality (Zoey K. Jones)
Anatomy of a Binge: Abject Intimacy and the Televisual Form (Anne Moore)
"You don't feel like a freak anymore": Representing Disability, Madness and Trauma in Litchfield Penitentiary (Lydia Brown)
Piper Chapman's Flexible Accommodation of Difference (H. Rakes)
"Can't fix crazy": Confronting Able-Mindedness (Sarah Gibbons)
About the Contributors
Index
