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The award winning, Netflix comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015–2019) broke new ground in representations of sexual violence. Recalibrating the energies of the sitcom to address issues of trauma, memory and witnessing, Unbreakable has helped craft a new esthetic of the genre. The four-season series replicates key features of the historical captivity narrative and the contemporaneous #MeToo movement. Ignoring the slave narrative of captivity and dispossession allows the series to sidestep the racialized dimensions of sexual assault. The narrative's resolute focus on white survivors permits the series to mobilize trauma for comedic effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The reason for crime drama to be a key site for the production of contemporary television feminism is explored with a brief background of the show, an analysis of Special Victims Unit (SVU) and illustration of feminist underpinning of its depictions of rape, and show's feminist understanding of sexual assault. The cumulative effect of the anti-feminine traits makes the series appear misogynist rather than feminist.

MOORTI: Private Lives, Proper Relations offers a new lens through which one can understand some key late twentieth century African American women's fiction. Your book primarily argues that the hidden [...]

The idea of having major game shows on the regional language cable channels was ignored for quite some time, but the trend has changed and the commodity culture which influences the game shows allows restructuring of the national politics. An argument that the motility of television genre permits the formation of a cosmopolitan sensibility even as it facilitates the reinscription of vernacular nationalisms is presented.