The Works of Shonda Rhimes

Anna Weinstein is on the screenwriting faculty at Kennesaw State University, USA. She is Series Editor of the SCREEN STORYTELLERS book series and PERFORM: Succeeding as a Creative Professional book series. She is the author of Writing Women for Film & Television: A Guide to Creating Complex Female Characters (2023) and editor of Writing for the Screen (2023) and Directing for the Screen (2023).

Preface: The Influence of Screenwriters
Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Influence of Shonda Rhimes
Anna Weinstein (Kennesaw State University, USA)

PART I: HOW SHE WORKS: Creating Television Series

1. Scandal as a New Series Model
William Rabkin (University of California, Riverside-Palm Desert, USA)

2. The Art of Developing “Humanistic” Female Characters
Rosanne Welch (Stephens College, USA)

3. Crafting the Pilot: Someone Arrives
Rani Deighe Crowe (Ball State University, USA)

PART II: SIGNIFICANT WORKS: Normalizing Diverse Representation

4. Color Aware Casting
Chriss Williams (William Paterson University, USA)

5. Black Maternal Bodies on the Screen: Shondaland and the New Representational Paradigm of Black Motherhood
Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka (University of Debrecen, Hungary)

6. Reworking the “Monstrous Mother” for the Modern Era
Louise Coopey (Independent Scholar, UK)

7. Respectability in Shondaland: Villainous Queerings
Sébastien Mignot (University of Caen Normandy, France)

8. From Family Shame to Doctor’s Pride: Shifting Trans Narratives on Grey’s Anatomy
Kara Raphaeli (Simpson College, USA)

9. Restorative vs. Retributive Justice: Themes from How to Get Away with Murder
Sara Correia-Hopkins (Swansea University, UK), Cate Correia-Hopkins (Independent Scholar, UK)

10. Hidden Fantastic Modalities of Shonda Rhimes’s Procedural Dramas
Ida Yoshinaga (Georgia Tech, USA)

11. Bridgerton: The Progressive Period Pastiche
Shelley Anne Galpin (King’s College London, UK)

PART III: RECENT WORKS: Building Shondaland

12. Ensemble Storytelling in How to Get Away with Murder
E. Deidre Pribram (Molloy University, USA)

13. Streaming Shondaland: Shonda Rhimes and Netflix—From Bridgerton and Beyond
Sheri Chinen Biesen (Rowan University, USA)

14. Hey, Peloton! Say Yes!
Stephanie O’Brien (University of North Carolina Asheville, USA)

List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index