1. POST-#METOO REFLECTIONS ON PRE-#METOO TV PRODUCTION: Female Actors' Precarity, Agency, and Emotional Labor
- Author
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Bruning, Kristina
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One Tree Hill (Television program) -- Criticism and interpretation ,Drama Queens (Podcast) -- Criticism and interpretation ,Emotion regulation -- Analysis ,Work -- Psychological aspects ,Agency theory -- Analysis -- Psychological aspects ,Arts, visual and performing ,Criticism and interpretation ,Psychological aspects ,Analysis - Abstract
This article employs rewatch podcast ethnography of the Drama Queens (2021--) podcast to conduct a historical production study of the teen drama One Tree Hill (2003-2012) through the lens of three female cast members looking back In the cultural moment after #MeToo. Situating the podcast within the confluence of Industrial and societal shifts that offer female actors a platform to reflect publicly on their working conditions pre- and post-#MeToo, I explore the ways In which gender compounds the already-precarlous positionality of early-career actors In the TV industry of the 2000s. Building on scholarship on gendered creative labor, television production, and podcast studies, I Illuminate how the same sexist discourses surrounding white heterosexual teenage femininity that are perpetuated on-screen also circulate and affect actors behind the scenes. I argue that while the rewatch podcast enables the actors to elaborate In hindsight on how they understand and experience their role and creative agency In crafting representation on television, it also not only reveals but constitutes an extension of the emotional labor Involved In these Ideological negotiations., WITHIN THE EVER-EXPANDING PODCAST LANDSCAPE, REWATCH AND RECAP PODCASTS currently proliferate. In 2021, rewatch podcasts based on The O.C. (Fox, 2003-2007), Gilmore Girls (The WB / The CW 2000-2007), and [...]
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- 2024