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Journal of Popular Television 11.1 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Popular Television 11.1 is out now!

Special Issue: ‘Bridgerton’

This special mini-issue on Netflix’s TV series, Bridgerton (2020–present), highlights the power of period drama television in its interrogation of historical and contemporary issues. The authors represent different disciplines, from literature and history to communications and media studies, and the formal and reflective essays that follow, combine our perspectives as both academics and fans of the period romance genre. Lastly, this issue describes how the ‘Bridgerton experience’ represents the multiple ways in which fans consume this series as it continues to shape our fantasies about the past.

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Aims & Scope

Journal of Popular Television is an international, peer-reviewed journal designed to promote and encourage scholarship on all aspects of popular television, whether fictional or non-fictional, from docudramas and sports to news and comedy. The journal is rooted in the belief that popular television continues to play a major cultural, political and social role, and thus seeks interdisciplinary contributions that contextualize programmes, genres, personalities and phenomena. The journal seeks to be equally responsive to contemporary developments in television production and within television criticism and theory, as to historical approaches and re-evaluation of canonical and non-canonical texts.

Issue 11.1

Editorial

The Bridgerton effect: Introduction to a Special Issue on Netflix’s TV series

JULIE ANNE TADDEO

Articles

From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires

AMBER DAVISSON AND KYRA HUNTING

Reading will not find you a husband: Eloise Bridgerton, accomplishment and the ‘thinking woman’ in the early nineteenth-century period drama

LIZZIE ROGERS

Reflections

‘You wish to follow your heart, and I wish to nurture my mind’: The figures of the spinster and widow in Bridgerton

BETHANY WYATT