Emily L. Newman is associate professor of art history at Texas A&M University-Commerce, specializing in contemporary art, popular culture, and gender studies. She lives in McKinney, Texas. Emily Witsell is research librarian and coordinator of reference and instruction at Wofford College. She lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Table of Contents

Introduction (Emily L. Newman and Emily Witsell)

Part I: Reality and Internet Programming

"What did we teach you?" Racialized Sisterhood in Girlfriend Intervention (Shelby L. Crosby and Susannah Bartlow)

"You too can make your own Lifetime movie": Branded Labor via Lifetime's Movie ­Mash-Ups (Lindsay Giggey)

"One day you're in and the next day you're out": Making Project Runway Work from Bravo to Lifetime (Emily Witsell)

Part II: Original Episodic Programming

Feminizing Militainment: Post/Post-Politics on Army Wives (Mary Douglas Vavrus)

"In Extremis": Unnatural Selection in Lifetime's Speculative Fictions (Lisa K. Perdigao)

Part III: Original Movies

"She needs some food": Eating Disorders, Lifetime and the ­Made-for-TV Movie (Emily L. Newman)

"Your Life. Your Time": Addressing a Fractured Audience through Docudrama (Staci Stutsman)

Subversion of the Final Girl in Rape Revenge Narratives and the Normalization of Violence Against Women in The Tenth Circle and The Assault (Jenny Platz)

Conclusion-Lifetime at Thirty: Leading the Way for Women and Television (Emily L. Newman)

Bibliography

About the Contributors

Index