1st Edition
Covid-19 in Film and Television Watching the Pandemic
Introduction: The Pandemic Will be Televised
Heike Mißler and Amanda D. Giammanco
1. Voice/lessness and Ventrolloquism: Girls’ Creative and Collective Resistance to Masculine ‘Leadership Theatre’ in Covid-era News
Hannah Yelin and Michelle Paule
2. Captive Audiences: Quarantining with Tiger King
Hannah Boast and Nicole Seymour
3. @Night@Home: YouTubifying Late-Night Television during the Early Stages of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Martin Butler and Michael Fuchs
4. Exploiting Opportunities and Exposing Inequalities: Telling Covid-19 Stories in Host (2020), Mythic Quest (2020–) and For Life (2020-2021)
Bethan Michael-Fox
5. Inside Bo Burnham: Timelessly Capturing the Zeitgeist
Carrie Allyn Ankerstein
6. Navigating the Covid-19 Pandemic as Essential Workers in Superstore
Kristy Beers Fägersten and Cornelia Gerhardt
7.“Give me liberty and give me death” – The Representation of the Pandemic in Medical Drama: Covid-19 Plotlines in Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19, and The Good Doctor
Heike Mißler and Verena Bernardi
8. The Pandemic at the Intersection of the Political and the Surreal: Covid-19, Systemic Racism, and the Gothic on The Good Fight
Aleksandra Musiał
Biography
Verena Bernardi is a senior lecturer and academic administrator in the English Department at Saarland University, Germany. Her research interests include vampire studies, cultural studies (North America and Scotland), television studies and fandom studies. She is the author of Us versus Them, or We? Post-2000 Vampiric Reflections of Family, Home and Hospitality in True Blood and The Originals. Among others, she has published in Hospitality, Rape and Consent in Vampire Popular Culture (2017) and is a coeditor of All Around Monstrous (2019).
Amanda D. Giammanco is cofounder of and coordinator for Saarland University’s English Writing Center. She is also a PhD student working on American national identity formation and television in the mid- to late-twentieth century. Her research interests include postwar suburbanization, critical whiteness studies, critical race studies, American cultural history, and media studies, as well as rhetoric and narratology.
Heike Mißler is a senior lecturer in British literary and cultural studies at Saarland University. Her research interests include gender and queer theory, feminist theory, critical race studies, critical whiteness studies, popular romance studies, TV and film studies, and posthumanism. She is the author of The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit: Popular Fiction, Postfeminism and Representation (2017).
