Ryan Murphy's Queer America

Ryan Murphy, a gay boy from Indiana, has created a media empire with successful television shows, movies, and documentaries. His creative output includes limited-run dramas, procedural dramas, anthology series, sit-coms, and long-running serial narratives. This collection examines Murphy's work through an intersectional framework, engaging with scholars and making the case for his queer sensibility, queer time, cultural memory, and contributions to LGBTQ+ representation and evolving gender identities.

Format: Hardback
Length: 278 pages
Publication date: 19 May 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Ryan Murphy, a self-proclaimed gay boy from Indiana, has built an impressive media empire. With an extensive list of credits and successful television shows, movies, and documentaries, Murphy boasts one of the most remarkable and accomplished careers in Hollywood. As a writer, producer, and director, his creative output encompasses a wide range of genres, including limited-run dramas like Feud, Ratched, and Halston, procedural dramas like 9-1-1 and 9-1-1 Lonestar, anthology series like American Crime Story, American Horror Story, and American Horror Stories, sit-coms like The New Normal, and long-running serial narratives like Glee, Nip/Tuck, and Pose. Each of these works is infused with a unique queer energy and eroticism, animating their narratives with a blend of campy excess and poignant longing, giving new meaning to the American story.

This collection explores Murphy as an auteur and showrunner, examining the gendered and sexual politics of his vast body of work. Employing an intersectional framework, a diverse group of renowned and emerging scholars engages with Murphy's diverse output, while also advocating for his version of a queer sensibility, a reimagined notion of queer time, cultural memory, and the contributions his production company makes to a politics of LGBTQ+ representation and evolving gender identities.

This book is an invaluable resource for students studying Gender and Media, LGBTQ+ Studies, Media Studies, and Communication Studies.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367772291