The CW Comes of Age

Ashley Lynn Carlson is an associate professor of English at the University of Montana Western in Dillon, Montana. She has published essays on a variety of topics ranging from nineteenth-century literature to contemporary popular culture. Lisa K. Perdigao is a professor of English at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida. Her publications are in the areas of contemporary fiction, television, film, and comics.

Introduction
Ashley Lynn Carlson and Lisa K. Perdigao
Part I. "TV to Talk About": Network Identity and The
A "­Bridge-to-Nowhere": Media Rights Capital and the Network's ­Decade-Long Hiatus from Sunday Night Programming
Kimberly A. Owczarski
Color by The CW: How Blackness Has Fared
Phillip Lamarr Cunningham
The Lowest Ratings on Prime Time: The CW's Business Model
Caryn Murphy
The Cultural Value of Jane the Virgin and Crazy ­Ex-Girlfriend
Paola Brembilla
Part II. "TV Now": The CW in the ­Post-Network and ­Post-Feminist
From Late Childhood to Emerging Adulthood: Representations of Teenagers on The WB and The
Ashley Lynn Carlson
It's the Ladies' Choice: Female Agency on Supergirl, Jane the Virgin, Beauty & the Beast, and Reign
Marian R. Hjelmgren
"There's no place like home": Supernatural's Domestic Crisis
Lisa K. Perdigao
Dare to Define: The Arrowverse and the New Television Superhero
Michael G. Robinson and Kenneth Wagner
#Clexa and #Sanvers Fandom: Questions of Representation, Reception, and Fans' Reactions
Mélanie Bourdaa
Part III. "Dare to Defy": Adapting and Expanding The ­CW-Verse
The Hybrid Identities of The Vampire Diaries
Angela Tenga and Lisa K. Perdigao
The Superhero Crossover Event: An Effective Staple of The CW's Programming
James F. Iaccino
Deconstructing The CW's Culture: iZombie and Serial Hybridization
Charles Joseph
How Do You Build a Problem Like Riverdale? Constructing the Imagined Community of the Archie Universe
Brenna Clarke Gray and Peter Wilkins
About the Contributors
Index