Ryan Murphy is a self-described gay boy from Indiana, who has grown up to forge a media empire. With an extraordinary list of credits and successful television shows, movies, and documentaries to his name, Murphy can now boast one of the broadest and most successful careers in Hollywood. Serving as writer, producer, and director, his creative output includes limited-run dramas (such as Feud , Ratched , and Halston ), procedural dramas (such as 9-1-1 and 9-1-1 Lonestar ), anthology series (such as American Crime Story , American Horror Story , and American Horror Stories ), sit-coms (such as The New Normal ) and long-running serial narratives (such as Glee, Nip/Tuck, and Pose ). Each of these is infused in different ways with a distinctive form of queer energy and erotics, animating their narratives with both campy excess and poignant longing and giving new meaning to the American story.
This collection takes up Murphy as auteur and showrunner, considering the gendered and sexual politics of Murphy's wide body of work. Using an intersectional framework throughout, an impressive list of well-known and emerging scholars engages with Murphy's diverse output, while also making the case for Murphy's version of a queer sensibility, a revised notion of queer time, cultural memory, and the contributions his own production company makes to a politics of LGBTQ+ representation and evolving gender identities.
This book is suitable for students of Gender and Media, LGBTQ+ Studies, Media Studies, and Communication Studies.

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Taylor & Francis Group

Routledge Taylor et Francis Group

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Psychology Press Ltd

CRC Press

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Abingdon Oxon ; New York NY, 2022

London ; New York, 2022

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Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Ryan Murphy Media as of March 2022
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction: Touching Queerness: Ryan Murphy’s Queer America
Murphy’s House of Abundance
Queer Theory, Transgender Theory, Intersectionality, and Queer of Color Critique
Camping with Ryan: The Queer Baroque
Ryan Murphy’s Queer America : An Overview
Concluding Considerations
Notes
Part I: Queer Sensibilities
Chapter 1: Posing as Normal?: The Televisual and the Queer, The New Normal and Pose
Currents, Flows, and (Main) Streams, or, the Making and Unmaking of Queer TV and TV Studies
Normal Television?
Posing an Alternative
Notes
Chapter 2: “You’re Sexual, Right?”: Ryan Murphy and the Eroticization of Straight Masculinity
Theorizing the Contemporary Politics of Masculinity
A Separate Piece: Nip/Tuck
Redpilling
American Masculinity Story: Mostly Straights and White Nationalists
Notes
Chapter 3: Hagsploitation: Or the Queer Sublimity of Feud: Bette and Joan
Introduction: Dateline, Hollywood
Hagsploitation
Camp Wars
Mamacita, Dearest
Conclusion: “All That Pain Will Finally Amount to Something?”
Notes
Chapter 4: American Twink Story
That Touch of Twink
Celestial Criminality: Darren Criss as Andrew Cunanan
Radiant Rage: Finn Wittrock as Dandy Mott
Lights Out!
Notes
Part II: What Was, Is, and Might Be
Chapter 5: Remediating the 1990s with Ryan Murphy: Gender, Race and (Inter)Generational Cultural Politics in The People Vs. OJ Simpson
Ryan Murphy and The People Vs. OJ Simpson : Forms, Contexts, and Modes of Address
Generational Identities and the 1990s
Ryan Murphy as Gen-X Media Producer
Category Is ... Bronco Chase Realness: Queered Historical Verisimilitude in “The Run of His Life”
“I Did It for Farrah and I’m Gonna Do It for You”: Pastiche-ing Millennial Makeover Culture in “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia”
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 6: What If Golden Age Hollywood Had Been Inclusive?: Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood as Queer Utopian Uchronia
A Uchronia Anchored in Reality
Hollywood: Murphy’s Script Rewrite
Out with the Old, in with the New: The Necessary Downfall of White Heteronormativity
Notes
Chapter 7: The Weight of Queer Emptiness: The Politician and Twenty-First-Century Queerness
Authenticity: “Does It matter?”
Post-Queerness: Fluidity and Throuples
Social Class: Weaponizing Normativity
Conclusion: The Weight of “Queer Emptiness”
Notes
Chapter 8: Rescuing Paternity: Masculinity, the Child, and Queer Futurity in 9-1-1
Does Annihilation of the Mother Queer the Child?
Birthing the Father: Eddie and Redemptive Paternity
Black Mothers/White Rescues: Diversity on the Clock
Do You Know What Can Go Wrong in Thirteen Minutes?: Risk Management, Heteromasculinity, and Fetal Emergency
Notes
Chapter 9: Into the Gleetocracy: The Contours and Contradictions of a Queered American Dream
“Just Own the Night, Like the Fourth of July”
“Don’t Stop Believing”: Meritocracy
“Mister Cellophane”: Visibility
“Defying Gravity”: Concluding with “Dreams Come True”
Notes
Part III: Remembering Those Lost: HIV/AIDS and Cultural Memory
Chapter 10: Normal?: The Normal Heart in Abnormal Times
The Normal Heart From Stage to Screen
The Normal and the Pathological
Stigma and Stigmata
Melodrama
Coda
Notes
Chapter 11: “I Always Knew I Wasn’t Gonna Be Long on This Earth”: Pose and the AIDS Crisis
Memory/History
Suture and Rupture
Past and Present
Notes
Chapter 12: Memorial Acts: Remembering Mart Crowley and The Boys in the Band
A Portrait of Mart Crowley: The Boys in the Band (2020)
Crowley’s Signature in Friedkin’s Cruising
Crowley’s Self-Portraits
Notes
Part IV: Ryan Murphy Productions
Chapter 13: The End of the “Best Actor” Discourse?: Pose and the Queer of Color Politics of Casting Trans Roles
Casting as Industrial Practice, Queer Labor, and Defensive Truth
Searching for and Finding Trans Actors
Authenticity and Defensive Truths in Casting
Category Is Casting Realness
Notes
Chapter 14: Fused Muse: Sarah Paulson as Ryan Murphy’s Partner in (American) Crime
Making Change by Changing Marcia
Murphy’s Redemption of the Older Actress
The Half Initiative: Remaking Hollywood
Collaborative Auteurism in the Murphy-verse
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 15: Showrunning Activism: Embodying Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Work of Ryan Murphy
Toward More Inclusive Television Labor Practices
Ryan Murphy’s Television Histories
Casting Queerness on Television
Showrunning Advocacy and Pose
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

"Ryan Murphy is a self-described "gay boy from Indiana," who has grown up to forge a media empire. With an extraordinary list of credits and successful television shows, movies, and documentaries to his name, Murphy can now boast one of the broadest and most successful careers in Hollywood. Serving as writer, producer, and director, his creative output includes limited-run dramas (such as Feud, Ratched, and Halston), procedural dramas (such as 9-1-1 and 9-1-1 Lonestar), anthology series (such as American Crime Story, American Horror Story, and American Horror Stories), sit-coms (such as The New Normal) and long-running serial narratives (such as Glee, Nip/Tuck, and Pose). Each of these is infused in different ways with a distinctive form of queer energy and erotics, animating their narratives with both campy excess and poignant longing and giving new meaning to the American story. This collection takes up Murphy as auteur and showrunner, considering the gendered and sexual politics of Murphy's wide body of work. Using an intersectional framework throughout, an impressive list of well-known and emerging scholars engage with Murphy's diverse output, while also making the case for Murphy's version of a queer sensibility, a revised notion of queer time, cultural memory, and the contributions his own production company makes to a politics of LGBTQ+ representation and evolving gender identities. This book is suitable for students of Gender and Media, LGBTQ+ Studies, Media Studies and Communication Studies"-- Provided by publisher

2022-05-02