MURFREESBORO — An
MTSU professor will peek behind the prison bars of the Netflix series “Orange
is the New Black” in an upcoming lecture.”
Dr. Clare Bratten, a professor in the Department of
Electronic Media Communication, will present “Orange is the New Black: How We
Talk about the Show” at 3 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, in Room 100 of the James
Union Building.
The comedy-drama Bratten will discuss follows the plight of
Piper Chapman, a woman who loses her comfortable New York life when she is
convicted in connection with a youthful indiscretion. Plots revolve around how she
adjusts to a life of prison privation and an array of quirky fellow inmates and
guards.
“Orange is the New Black” has been nominated for numerous
awards and won a Peabody Award in 2013. It won the award for Outstanding
Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series at the 2015 Screen Actors Guild
Awards ceremony, and Uzo Aduba captured the 2015 SAG award for Outstanding
Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series.
“The talk explores whether the wildly popular series … is a
soap opera-styled serial, a socially conscious critique of prison life or a
continuation of a ‘Women In Prison’ genre that began in the early days of
Hollywood,” Bratten said.
Bratten’s presentation, which is free and open to the
public, is the latest in MTSU’s Women’s and Gender Studies Research Series.
For more information, contact the Women’s and Gender Studies
office at 615-898-5910 or womenstu@mtsu.edu.
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