*CFP: The Good Wife (CBS 2008 - ) a special issue of the journal Television and New Media* This proposed special issue of the journal *Television and New Media* seeks papers exploring the CBS primetime drama *The Good Wife *(*TGW*). With its central female protagonist, strong ensemble cast, and broadcast home on a network often considered a conservative outlet for conventional sitcoms and procedurals, *TGW* is a particularly rich text through which to explore the increasingly gendered discourses of “quality TV” and the dynamic state of hour-long TV dramas. Responding to the focal shift in current television scholarship away from broadcast television, we seek proposals that are interested in reconsidering the role of broadcast television in the post-network era and/or recouping the feminist foundations of television studies and its disciplinary agendas. Over the course of 6 seasons, with its unique blend of serial and procedural storytelling, *The Good Wife* expands the clichéd “good wife,” or melodrama’s martyred “coping woman,” with a contradictory and mercurial characterization of a woman whose liberation and corruption are increasingly intertwined. Yet, despite this unique characterization, as well as the show’s acute political timeliness and sharp critiques of political institutions and our contemporary technological lives, the popular and ratings-successful CBS network drama remains on the periphery of conversations about “quality TV” and the legitimizing forces of TV’s new Golden Age. Using this complex and dynamic network drama as its focus, this special issue seeks papers from diverse methodological perspectives on a variety of subjects, including but not limited to: - Narrative structure & genre - Televisual form & Aesthetics - Celebrity & Performance - Authorship & Industry-Audience dynamics - The impact of business models on storytelling - Technology & Surveillance - Politics, Campaigning, & Political discourse - Race, class, gender & sexuality - Recession-Era media trends - Discourses of Quality - Broadcasting History & TV Studies Historiography - Functions of Wardrobe & Fashion - Representations of Religion Abstracts of 350 words or less should be submitted for consideration to the editors, Taylor Nygaard [log in to unmask] and Jorie Lagerwey [log in to unmask] by *May 15th 2015*. If accepted, final papers of 7,500 words or less will be due October 1, 2015. ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: https://listserv.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html