Independent Women

Claire Perkins is Senior Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of American Smart Cinema (2012) and co-editor of six collections including (with Michele Schreiber and Linda Badley) Indie Reframed: Women’s Filmmaking and Contemporary American Independent Cinema (2016), Transnational Television Remakes (2016), and US Independent Film After 1989: Possible Films (2015).Michele Schreiber is Associate Professor of Film and Media at Emory University, USA. She is the author of American Postfeminist Cinema: Women, Romance and Contemporary Culture (2014) and co-editor (along with Claire Perkins and Linda Badley) of Indie Reframed: Women’s Filmmaking and Contemporary American Independent Cinema (2016).

• Introduction: independent women: from film to television 1. Women’s indie television: the intimate feminism of women-centric dramedies 2. Olive Kitteridge (Lisa Cholodenko, 2014), quality television and difficult women: female discontent in the age of binge-viewing 3. Teresa Fernández-Valdés and female-produced TV series in Spain. Cable Girls/Las chicas del cable as case study 4. Mar Coll’s Matar al padre / Killing the Father (Movistar+ 2018): a female Auteur between filmand television in Spain 5. Breaking upwards: the creative uncoupling of Desiree Akhavan and Ingrid Jungermann 6. Drawn (to) independence: female showrunners in contemporary American TV animation 7. Sorority flow: the rhetoric of sisterhood in post-network television