Full Description
This edited collection highlights how people connected with friends and family, students and colleagues, leaders and communities, in their quest to persevere during the pandemic. The chapters describe how people enjoyed their passions for the arts in new and unexpected ways, given the restrictions of COVID-19 safety protocols, and how scripted and reality television programming helped them escape, however briefly, from the traumas of the pandemic, the racial injustice, the political machismo and divisiveness of this time. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of communication, media studies, sociology, cultural studies, and gender studies.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Documenting Pandemic Stories
Michelle Napierski-Prancl, David Staton, and Deborah A. Macey
Section 1: Communication & Resilience
Chapter 2: "Don't worry, we're gonna figure this out": Exploring Resilient Pedagogy during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Matthew J. Manierre, Jan DeWaters, Seema Rivera, and Martha Whalen
Chapter 3: COVID-19 Moments: The Photographic Narratives of Resilience and Productivity among MotherScholars
Sarah Symonds LeBlanc, Elizabeth Spradley, Heather Olson Beal, Lauren Burrow, and Chrissy Cross
Chapter 4: The Ritual of the Bering Sea: Commodity, Country, and Mortality in The Deadliest Catch
Derek Moscato
Chapter 5: Developing Voice Resilience: Building on Spiral of Silence Theory
Alana M. Nicastro and Shelly M. Valdez
Chapter 6: What Reassurance? What Reality?: Governor Cuomo, COVID-19, and the Politics of Masculine Protection
Laurie E. Naranch
Section 2: Creativity & Productivity
Chapter 7: Being There and Not: Slippery Simulacrums of Song
David Staton
Chapter 8: Theater Doesn't Work: (Co-)Creation in Pandemic Theater-Making
Izabela Derda
Chapter 9: Projecting through the Mask: Theatre Techniques in the Hybrid Classroom
Alicia Corts
Chapter 10: Cultivating Student Creativity during the Pandemic: Short-term Remedy with Long-term Value
Heather J. Hether
Chapter 11: Creativity and Consolation in The Golden Girls: How Revisiting an Old Show Was a Balm for the New Hard Times
Lauren Kelly and Sarah Royal
Section 3: Connection & Comfort
Chapter 12: Walking My Way to Community and Connection during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Theory and Practice
Theresa Conefrey
Chapter 13: The Class of 2020: Parents' Perspectives of the Pomp and Terrible Circumstance
Michelle Napierski-Prancl
Chapter 14: Bridging Social Distancing Boundaries: Food Consumption and Community during Quarantine
Edith Ritt-Coulter
Chapter 15: The Escapism and Social Bond of Pandemic Binge Watching
Gwendelyn S. Nisbett, Stephanie Schartel Dunn, and Newly Paul
Chapter 16: Ted Lasso: A Feel-Good Show in a Not-Feel-Good Time
Deborah A. Macey and Mary P. Erickson
