The panel on the Prison TV genre that I have organized with Alan Pike (Emory) has been accepted for the SCMS 2016 conference. I’m excited to be working with so many great people!
Orange is the New Black (c) Netflix
Panel Title: Prison is the New Guilty Pleasure: “Orange is the New Black,” the Prison TV Genre, and the Prison-Industrial Complex
Chair: Hannah Mueller, Alan Pike
“We Do Everything Around Here”: An Analysis of Litchfield Penitentiary as a Workplace on “Orange is the New Black”/Lauren DeCarvalho, Nicole Cox
Soap Opera vs. Dropping the Soap: The Gendered Representation of Prison Inmates on TV/Hannah Mueller
Digital Pleasures: Surrendering to the Affective and Temporal Mobility of “Orange is the New Black”/Kyra Pearson
The Prison Genre on Premium Television, from “Oz” to “Orange is the New Black”/Alan Pike
Not Canon Compliant 