Covid-19 in Film and Television: Watching the Pandemic [Hardcover]

Introduction: The Pandemic Will be Televised

1. Voice/lessness and Ventrolloquism: Girls Creative and Collective Resistance to Masculine Leadership Theatre in Covid-era News?

2. Captive Audiences: Quarantining with Tiger King?

3. @Night@Home: YouTubifying Late-Night Television during the Early Stages of the Covid-19 Pandemic

4.?Exploiting Opportunities and Exposing Inequalities: Telling Covid-19 Stories in Host (2020), Mythic Quest (2020) and For Life (2020-2021)

5. Inside Bo Burnham: Timelessly Capturing the Zeitgeist??

6. Navigating the Covid-19 Pandemic as Essential Workers in Superstore ?

7. Give me liberty and give me death  The Representation of the Pandemic in Medical Drama: Covid-19 Plotlines in Greys Anatomy, Station 19, and The Good Doctor?

8.The Pandemic at the Intersection of the Political and the Surreal: Covid-19, Systemic Racism, and the Gothic on The Good Fight?

This collection explores the impact of Covid-19 on the production and consumption of television and film content in the English-speaking world. Offering in-depth analysis of select on-screen entertainment, the volume addresses entertainments changing role during and following the Covid-19 pandemic. It also studies the pandemics incorporation into the narrative of numerous series, films, and other televised formats, capturing the moments and contexts in which these developments emerged. Chapters examine the pandemics impact both on a micro- and macro level, focusing on the content as well as form of TV shows and films. Bringing together an international team of scholars, l#3