The Women of Jenji Kohan
eBook - ePub

The Women of Jenji Kohan

  1. 89 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Women of Jenji Kohan

About this book

The Women of Jenji Kohan, creator of such landmark shows asWeeds, Orange Is the New Black, andGLOW, is the latest in Fayetteville Mafia Press's pioneering series examining the female characters of legendary creators of television and film. The Women of Jenji Kohan, creator of such landmark shows as Weeds, Orange Is the New Black, and GLOW, is the latest in Fayetteville Mafia Press's pioneering series examining the female characters of legendary creators of television and film. Here, writers from all walks of life analyze the significance of such iconic characters as Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker), Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) and the host of women residing in Litchfield Correctional Institution, Ruth Wilder (Alison Brie), and Debbie Eagan (Betty Gilpin), to both themselves and to pop culture at large. Edited by Scarlett Harris ( A Diva Was a Female Version of a Wrestler: An Abbreviated Herstory of World Wrestling Entertainment ), The Women of Jenji Kohan: Weeds, Orange Is the New Black, and GLOW is the third book in the unique "The Women Of" series, following The Women of David Lynch (June 2019) and The Women of Amy Sherman-Palladino (November 2019).

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Information

Publisher
Perfect Bound Books
Year
2019
eBook ISBN
9781949024319
Edition
0
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Television

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Title Page
  4. The Women of Jenji Kohan
  5. Little Boxes and Weeds: The Geography of Social Mobility
  6. Are You a Piper or an Alex?
  7. GLOW: A Perspective from a Real-Life Lady Wrestler
  8. Nancy Botwin Is a White Woman
  9. Ruth the Real Girl
  10. “We’re the Majority Now”: Interethnic Tensions Within the Latinx Community on Orange Is the New Black
  11. The Infamous Fourth Season: The Straw That Broke the Fandom’s Back
  12. “Kiss and Tell”: An Ode to the First Iconic Gilmore Girls Episode
  13. Really Proud of Her: Teenage Bounty Hunters and the Shifting Norms in Teen Sex
  14. Finding Comfort in GLOW ’s Arthie Premkumar
  15. Debbie & Ruth: A Shipper’s Manifesto
  16. I Know Who I Am: On Being Incorrect and Incurable in Weeds
  17. About the Author
  18. More To Read
  19. Notes