My research examines how, when and why feminism happens on screen.
Journal articles
Ford, Jessica. (2024) “Televisual authorship and the affective feminism of HBO’s Sharp Objects adaptation.” New Review of Film and Television Studies, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 277-295.
Perkins, Claire, Jodi Brooks, Janice Loreck, Pearl Tan, Jessica Ford and Rebecca J. Sheehan. (2023) “Doing Film Feminisms in the Age of Popular Feminism: A Roundtable Convened by Claire Perkins and Jodi Brooks.” Australian Feminist Studies. Online First.
Macrossan, Phoebe and Jessica Ford. (2022) “Duets and the demands of country music: Contradictory feminisms in Nashville.” The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 55, no. 2.
Ford, Jessica and Amy Boyle. (2021) “The Emotional Detective: Gender, Violence and the Post-Forensic TV Crime Drama.” MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, vol. 7.
Ford, Jessica. (2019) “Women’s indie television: The intimate feminism of women-centric dramedies.” Feminist Media Studies, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 928-943.
Ford, Jessica and Phoebe Macrossan. (2019) “The musical number as feminist intervention in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.” Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 55-69.
Ford, Jessica. (2018) “Rebooting Roseanne: Feminist voice across decades.” M/C Journal, vol. 21, no. 5.
Ford, Jessica. (2018) “Feminist cinematic television: Authorship, aesthetics and gender in Pamela Adlon’s Better Things.” fusion journal, vol. 14, pp. 16-29.
Ford, Jessica. (2016) “The ‘smart’ body politics of Lena Dunham’s Girls.” Feminist Media Studies, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 1029-1042.
Book Chapters
Ford, Jessica. (2022) “Gender, Violence and Empowerment: Reworking the Female Action Hero in Dollhouse.” Gender and Action Heroes: Road Warriors, Bombshells and Atomic Blondes, edited by Renee Middlemost and Steven Gerrard. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing, pp. 47-57.
Ford, Jessica. (2022) “Wentworth, Orange is the New Black and contemporary media feminisms: Systemic inequality and individual responsibility.” TV Transformations and Transgressive Women: From Prisoner: Cell Block H to Wentworth, edited by Radha O’Meara, Tessa Dwyer, Stayci Taylor and Craig Batty. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang, pp. 193-209.
Ford, Jessica and Martin Zeller-Jacques. (2022) “You Can’t Go Home Again: The Recuperative Reboot and the Trump Era Sitcom.” American Television During a Television Presidency, edited by Karen McNally. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, pp. 275-290.
Ford, Jessica. (2021) “Women’s indie television: The intimate feminism of women-centric dramedies.” Independent Women: From Film to Television, edited by Claire Perkins and Michele Schreiber. London: Routledge. [Reprint, first published in Feminist Media Studies]
Ford, Jessica. (2020) “Popular feminism and television stardom in Hallmark’s original made-for-television movies.” The Hallmark Channel: Essays on Faith, Race and Feminism, edited by Emily L. Newman and Emily Witsell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, pp. 32-49.
Ford, Jessica. (2020) “Can prison be a feminist space?: Interrogating television representations of women’s prisons,” The Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture, edited by Marcus Harmes, Meredith Harmes and Barbara Harmes. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 613-626.
Ford, Jessica. (2019) “At the fringes of TV: Liminality and privilege in Netflix’s original scripted dramedy series,” Netflix at the Nexus: Content, Practice, and Production in the Age of Streaming Television, edited by Amber M. Buck and Theo Plothe. New York, NY: Peter Lang, pp. 97-112.
Ford, Jessica. (2018) “Negotiating creative feminine labor on family television: Are Jane By Design and Bunheads riding a new feminist wave?” ABC Family to Freeform TV: Essays on the Millennial-Focused Network and its Programs, edited by Emily L. Newman and Emily Witsell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, pp. 84-98.
Ford, Jessica. (2014) “Feminist and postfeminist discourses: Reading the Britta problem.” A Sense of Community: Essays on the Television Series and its Fandom, edited by Ann-Gee Lee. Jefferson. NC: McFarland, pp. 82-97.
Ford, Jessica. (2012) “Coming out of the broom closet: Willow’s sexuality and empowerment in Buffy.” Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion, edited by Mary Alice Money. London: Titan Books, pp. 93-102.