- Title
- Negotiating Creative Feminine Labor on Family Television: Are Jane By Design and Bunheads Riding a New Feminist Wave?
- Creator
- Ford, Jessica
- Relation
- https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/abc-family-to-freeform-tv/
- Publisher
- McFarland & Company
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Bunheads (2012–2013) and Jane by Design (2012) both debuted in 2012 as part of ABC Family’s (now Freeform) slate of original programing. Both series focus on non- normative families and explore creative labor. Bunheads follows dancer Michelle Simms (Sutton Foster) as she uproots her life as a dancer in las Vegas, to eventually become a dance teacher in the small fictional seaside town of Paradise, california. Jane by Design centers on Jane Quimby (erica dasher), a high school student who goes for an internship and, through a series of misunderstandings, lands a job as an executive assistant to the creative director of fictional new York fashion designer donovan decker, an elusive God- like figure that is constantly discussed, but never appears in the series. in the pilot episodes of both series, the female protagonists’ lives become exceedingly more complicated as they are ushered into their new worlds. Bunheads and Jane by Design each center on feminine creative arts (dancing and fashion) as their primary expression of self, femininity, and labor. Both series only ran for one season and have not been widely examined in academic or journalistic discussions of recent scripted U.S. television.
- Subject
- television; feminine labor; feminism
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1451691
- Identifier
- uon:44247
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781476667355
- Language
- eng
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