The draft of Chapter II / Private Eyes is now complete! I should add illustrations at some point, but there are none at this time.
My most recent feedback on the original essay was by email, more than a year ago, from Sam/itsnotaword/NW. I finally replied last week (what? a year is not an unreasonable turnaround time on a non-essential email in my world, srsly) and the address is dead. So I'll share the response with you here. She informed me that SVU and Xena share Liz Freidman as sometime producer -- good detective work.
I'm finishing up a dissertation chapter update of the Olivia project, and I did add some later events in the saga, including the infamous Baer quote and the speculation about Mariska. It's really interesting to hear that there might be a material (as opposed to just a stylistic) connection to Xena. Overall, I tried to highlight the potential commercial advantage of "subtext" in this version, particularly in the context of TV/internet convergence. The whole massive debate remains fascinating, but it all seems very long ago, now. I really do appreciate hearing from you about the essay, though! While I'm sure I didn't succeed in making it entirely accessible, it is very gratifying that fellow fans read it and got something out of it.
/ Works Cited
Ang, Ien. Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World. Routledge, 1995.
B, Angie. “SVU's Detective Benson Attracts Lesbian Fans.” AfterEllen.com May 2004. 25 Jun 2008 {http://www.afterellen.com/archive/ellen/TV/svu.html}.
Bathrick, Serafina. “The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Women at Home and at Work.” MTM: 'Quality Television'. Ed. Jane Feuer et al. British Film Institute, 1985.
Beirne, Rebecca. “Introduction.” Televising Queer Women: A Reader. Ed. Rebecca Beirne. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Brunsdon, Charlotte. “Identity in Feminist Television Criticism.” Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader. Ed. Charlotte Brunsdon, Julie D'Acci, & Lynn Spigel. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Busse, Kristina. “semi-public spaces and attention economy.” Ephemeral Traces 11 May 2007. 25 Jun 2008 {http://kbusse.wordpress.com/2007/05/11/semi-public-spaces-and-attention-economy/}.
Chonin, Neva. “With hot 'Law & Order' squad's focus on sex crime, suddenly everybody's watching the detectives.” San Francisco Chronicle 23 Mar 2005. 17 Jun 2008 {http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/23/DDGHTBSLLF1.DTL}.
Coppa, Francesca. “A Brief History of Media Fandom.” Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet. Ed. Karen Hellekson & Kristina Busse. McFarland & Company, 2006.
Cuklanz, Lisa M. Rape on Prime Time: Television, Masculinity, and Sexual Violence. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Doty, Alexander. Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture. University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
Feuer, Jane. “Narrative Form in American Network Television.” High Theory/Low Culture: Analyzing Popular Television and Film. Ed. Colin MacCabe. Palgrave Macmillan, 1986.
Fiske, John. “Moments of Television: Neither the Text nor the Audience.” Remote Control: Television, Audiences, and Cultural Power. Ed. Ellen Seiter et al. Routledge, 1991.
Hastie, Amelie. “The Epistemological Stakes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Television Criticism and Marketing Demands.” Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Elana Levine & Lisa Parks. Duke University Press, 2007.
Hellekson, Karen, and Kristina Busse. “Introduction: Work in Progress.” Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet. McFarland & Company, 2006.
Jenkins, Henry. “Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching.” Television: The Critical View. Ed. Horace Newcomb. Oxford University Press, 1994.
Jones, Sara Gwenllian. “Starring Lucy Lawless?” Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 14.1 (2000): 9-22.
---. “The Sex Lives of Cult Television Characters.” Screen 43.1 (2002): 79-90.
Joyrich, Lynne. “Epistemology of the Console.” Critical Inquiry 27.3 (2001): 439-467.
---. Re-Viewing Reception: Television, Gender, and Postmodern Culture. Indiana University Press, 1996.
Lentz, Kirsten Marthe. “Quality versus Relevance: Feminism, Race, and the Politics of the Sign in 1970s Television.” Camera Obscura 15.43 (2000): 45-93.
Lothian, Alexis, Kristina Busse, and Robin Anne Reid. “'Yearning Void and Infinite Potential': Online Slash Fandom as Queer Female Space .” English Language Notes 42.5 (2007): 103-111.
Projansky, Sarah. Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture. NYU Press, 2001.
Rabinovitz, Lauren. “Ms.-Representation: The Politics of Feminist Sitcoms.” Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays. Ed. Lauren Rabinovitz & Mary Beth Haralovich. Duke University Press, 1999.
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Epistemology of the Closet. University of California Press, 1990.
Spigel, Lynn. “The Suburban Home Companion: Television and the Neighborhood Ideal in Post-War America.” Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader. Ed. Charlotte Brunsdon, Julie D'Acci, & Lynn Spigel. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Streeter, Thomas, and Wendy Wahl. “Audience Theory and Feminism: Property, Gender, and the Television Audience.” Camera Obscura 33/34 (1994): 243-261.
Torres, Sasha. “Television/Feminism: HeartBeat and Prime Time Lesbianism.” The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. Ed. Henry Abelove, David M. Halperin, & Michele Aina Barale. Routledge, 1993.
Weber, Samuel. Mass Mediauras: Form, Technics, Media. Stanford University Press, 1996.
My most recent feedback on the original essay was by email, more than a year ago, from Sam/itsnotaword/NW. I finally replied last week (what? a year is not an unreasonable turnaround time on a non-essential email in my world, srsly) and the address is dead. So I'll share the response with you here. She informed me that SVU and Xena share Liz Freidman as sometime producer -- good detective work.
I'm finishing up a dissertation chapter update of the Olivia project, and I did add some later events in the saga, including the infamous Baer quote and the speculation about Mariska. It's really interesting to hear that there might be a material (as opposed to just a stylistic) connection to Xena. Overall, I tried to highlight the potential commercial advantage of "subtext" in this version, particularly in the context of TV/internet convergence. The whole massive debate remains fascinating, but it all seems very long ago, now. I really do appreciate hearing from you about the essay, though! While I'm sure I didn't succeed in making it entirely accessible, it is very gratifying that fellow fans read it and got something out of it.
/ Works Cited
Ang, Ien. Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World. Routledge, 1995.
B, Angie. “SVU's Detective Benson Attracts Lesbian Fans.” AfterEllen.com May 2004. 25 Jun 2008 {http://www.afterellen.com/archive/ellen/TV/svu.html}.
Bathrick, Serafina. “The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Women at Home and at Work.” MTM: 'Quality Television'. Ed. Jane Feuer et al. British Film Institute, 1985.
Beirne, Rebecca. “Introduction.” Televising Queer Women: A Reader. Ed. Rebecca Beirne. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Brunsdon, Charlotte. “Identity in Feminist Television Criticism.” Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader. Ed. Charlotte Brunsdon, Julie D'Acci, & Lynn Spigel. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Busse, Kristina. “semi-public spaces and attention economy.” Ephemeral Traces 11 May 2007. 25 Jun 2008 {http://kbusse.wordpress.com/2007/05/11/semi-public-spaces-and-attention-economy/}.
Chonin, Neva. “With hot 'Law & Order' squad's focus on sex crime, suddenly everybody's watching the detectives.” San Francisco Chronicle 23 Mar 2005. 17 Jun 2008 {http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/23/DDGHTBSLLF1.DTL}.
Coppa, Francesca. “A Brief History of Media Fandom.” Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet. Ed. Karen Hellekson & Kristina Busse. McFarland & Company, 2006.
Cuklanz, Lisa M. Rape on Prime Time: Television, Masculinity, and Sexual Violence. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Doty, Alexander. Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture. University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
Feuer, Jane. “Narrative Form in American Network Television.” High Theory/Low Culture: Analyzing Popular Television and Film. Ed. Colin MacCabe. Palgrave Macmillan, 1986.
Fiske, John. “Moments of Television: Neither the Text nor the Audience.” Remote Control: Television, Audiences, and Cultural Power. Ed. Ellen Seiter et al. Routledge, 1991.
Hastie, Amelie. “The Epistemological Stakes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Television Criticism and Marketing Demands.” Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ed. Elana Levine & Lisa Parks. Duke University Press, 2007.
Hellekson, Karen, and Kristina Busse. “Introduction: Work in Progress.” Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet. McFarland & Company, 2006.
Jenkins, Henry. “Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching.” Television: The Critical View. Ed. Horace Newcomb. Oxford University Press, 1994.
Jones, Sara Gwenllian. “Starring Lucy Lawless?” Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 14.1 (2000): 9-22.
---. “The Sex Lives of Cult Television Characters.” Screen 43.1 (2002): 79-90.
Joyrich, Lynne. “Epistemology of the Console.” Critical Inquiry 27.3 (2001): 439-467.
---. Re-Viewing Reception: Television, Gender, and Postmodern Culture. Indiana University Press, 1996.
Lentz, Kirsten Marthe. “Quality versus Relevance: Feminism, Race, and the Politics of the Sign in 1970s Television.” Camera Obscura 15.43 (2000): 45-93.
Lothian, Alexis, Kristina Busse, and Robin Anne Reid. “'Yearning Void and Infinite Potential': Online Slash Fandom as Queer Female Space .” English Language Notes 42.5 (2007): 103-111.
Projansky, Sarah. Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture. NYU Press, 2001.
Rabinovitz, Lauren. “Ms.-Representation: The Politics of Feminist Sitcoms.” Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays. Ed. Lauren Rabinovitz & Mary Beth Haralovich. Duke University Press, 1999.
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Epistemology of the Closet. University of California Press, 1990.
Spigel, Lynn. “The Suburban Home Companion: Television and the Neighborhood Ideal in Post-War America.” Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader. Ed. Charlotte Brunsdon, Julie D'Acci, & Lynn Spigel. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Streeter, Thomas, and Wendy Wahl. “Audience Theory and Feminism: Property, Gender, and the Television Audience.” Camera Obscura 33/34 (1994): 243-261.
Torres, Sasha. “Television/Feminism: HeartBeat and Prime Time Lesbianism.” The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. Ed. Henry Abelove, David M. Halperin, & Michele Aina Barale. Routledge, 1993.
Weber, Samuel. Mass Mediauras: Form, Technics, Media. Stanford University Press, 1996.
