Transgressive Television: Politics and Crime in 21st-Century American TV Series

Table of Contents
BIRGIT DÄWES, ALEXANDRA GANSER, NICOLE POPPENHAGEN • Season Recap: A Preface
Paving Pathways
	BIRGIT DÄWES • Transgressive Television: Preliminary Thoughts
	GARY R. EDGERTON • The Countdown to Y2KTV and the Arrival of the New Serialists
	ALEXANDRA GANSER • Transgressive Serialization and the Serialization of Transgression at the U.S.-Canadian Border: Twin Peaks
Representing Power: Formats of Political TV Series
	MARJOLAINE BOUTET • The Politics of Time in House of Cards
	SIMONE PUFF • Another Scandal in Washington: How a Transgressive, Black Anti-Heroine Makes for New “Quality TV”
	DOROTHEA WILL • The Humane Face of Politics? Political Representations, Power Structures, and Gender Limitations in HBO’s Political Comedy Veep
Normative Crossings: Institutions, Gender, and Ethnicity
	FABIUS MAYLAND • Institutions and Personal Conceptions of Reality in HBO’s The Wire: Spatial Transgressions and Their Consequences
	KIMBERLY R. MOFFITT • The Portrayals of Black Motherhood in The Wire
	CORNELIA KLECKER • “Symbolic Annihilation” and Drive-By Misogyny: Women in Contemporary U.S.-American Television Series
	RENÉ DIETRICH • Secret Spheres from Breaking Bad to The Americans: The Politics of Secrecy, Masculinity, and Transgression in 21st-Century U.S. Television Drama
	STEPHANIE SCHOLZ • Cashing In: The ‘Casino Indian’ on Television
Transgression and Control: Serializing Crime
	KARIN HOEPKER • No Longer Your Friendly Neighborhood Killer: Crime Shows and Seriality after Dexter
	JANINA ROJEK • Crime, Control, and (Medical) Condition:The Illness Narratives of The Sopranos, Boss, and Breaking Bad as Boundary Transgression
	MATTHEW LEROY • Death Art: Representations of Violence in NBC’s Hannibal
	FELIX BRINKER • NBC’s Hannibal and the Politics of Audience Engagement
	CHRISTOPH SCHUBERT • Dexter in Disguise: A Stylistic Approach to Verbal Camouflage in a Serial Killer Series
Contributors