Contents Introduction vii What Is a Golden Age? vii How to Read This Book x 1 Stories and Audiences 1 Storytelling in the Age of Convergence Culture 5 Literary TV 10 Side Note: Mad Men 15 Twenty-First-Century Television Viewing and Netflix’s House of Cards 18 Jane the Virgin: The New Telenovela 22 Side Note: Dual-Language Dramas 27 ASD on TV 29 2 Safe and Unsafe 35 Rescue Me and Recovery from 9/11 38 Terrorism, Torture, and Trust in Counterterrorism Narratives 45 Protecting the Homeland 51 Side Note: The Russians in The Americans 58 Side Note: Comic Book TV 61 You Are Being Watched: Person of Interest and Citizen Monitoring 64 3 Women and Men 69 Black Female Leads on Network Television 74 Side Note: Diversity in Orange Is the New Black 81
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