Gladiators in Suits by Simone Puff HARDBACK 9780815636229

Syracuse University Press

Gladiators in SuitsRace, Gender, and the Politics of Representation in Scandal\nAuthor(s): Simone Puff, Kimberly R. Moffitt, Ronald L. Jackson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Syracuse University Press, United States\nImprint: Syracuse University Press\nISBN-13: 9780815636229, 978-0815636229\nSynopsis\nOne of the most popular shows to come out of Shondaland, Shonda Rhimes's production company, is ABC's political drama Scandal [tel]a series whose tremendous success and marketing savvy led LA Times critic Mary McNamara to hail it as \""\""the show that Twitter built\""\"" and Time magazine to name its protagonist as one of the most influential fictional characters of 2013. The series portrays a fictional Washington, DC, and features a diverse group of characters, racially and otherwise, who gather around the show's antiheroine, Olivia Pope, a powerful crisis manager who happens to have an extramarital affair with the president of the United States. For seven seasons, audiences learned a great.