Adventures in ShondaLand: identity politics and the power of representation

Introduction. Riding Shondaland's rollercoasters: critical cultural television studies in the 21st century / Michaela D.E. Meyer and Rachel Alicia Griffin

Pt. 1. Quality television's cultural dominance: the auteur comes to television studies. Trauma, spin, and murder: the carnival spectacle in Shondaland / Richard G. Jones Jr. and Emily Vajjala ; Wounded detachments, differential alliances: beyond identity and telos in Shondaland's heterotopia / Joan Faber Mcalister ; Abortion in Shondaland: daring departures from oppressive industry conventions / Jessica L. Furgerson ; Soundtracking Shondaland: television identity mapped through music / Jennifer Billinson and Michaela D.E. Meyer

Pt. 2. Shondaland's paradoxical identity politics and the fantastical "Post". Race (lost and found) in Shondaland: the rise of multiculturalism in prime-time network television / Jade Petermon ; Emb(Race)ing visibility: Callie Torre's(Im)perfect operation of bisexuality on Grey's Anatomy / Shadee Abdi and Bernadette Marie Calafell ; The problematics of postracial colorblindness: exploring Cristina Yang's Asianness in Grey's Anatomy / Stephanie L. Young and Vincent Pham ; Interracial intimacies: from Shondaland to the postracial promised land / Myra Washington and Tina M. Harris

Pt. 3. Consumption, ethics, and morality: Shondaland fandom as cultural meaning making. #BlackLivesMatter on Scandal: analyzing divergent fan reactions to "The Lawn Chair" episode / Mark P. Orbe ; Blurring production boundaries with fan empowerment: Scandal as social television / Mary Ingram-Waters and Leslie Balderas ; Media criticism and morality policing on Twitter: fan responses to How to Get Away with Murder / Melissa Ames ; Dying for the next episode: living and working within Shondaland's medical universe / Sean Swenson.