by Elana Levine
about Elana Levine
Elana Levine is Professor of Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is the author of Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History, co-author with Michael Z. Newman of Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status, author of Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television, editor of Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early 21st Century, and co-editor with Lisa Parks of Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Grey’s Anatomy
Abstract: Looking at how Grey’s Anatomy’s representations of gender and race go beyond simple notions of positive or negative images, Elana Levine argues that the hit medical drama serves as a fantasy space for imagining a world free of discrimination and power imbalances, and thus offers a more nuanced set of representations than might first appear.