Independent Women: From Film to Television explores the significance for feminism of the increasing representation of women on and behind the screen in television contexts around the world.

Claire Perkins is Senior Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of American Smart Cinema (2012) and co-editor of six collections including (with Michele Schreiber and Linda Badley) Indie Reframed: Women's Filmmaking and Contemporary American Independent Cinema (2016), Transnational Television Remakes (2016), and US Independent Film After 1989: Possible Films (2015).

Michele Schreiber is Associate Professor of Film and Media at Emory University, USA. She is the author of American Postfeminist Cinema: Women, Romance and Contemporary Culture (2014) and co-editor (along with Claire Perkins and Linda Badley) of Indie Reframed: Women's Filmmaking and Contemporary American Independent Cinema (2016).

Introduction: independent women: from film to television 1. Women's indie television: the intimate feminism of women-centric dramedies 2. Olive Kitteridge (Lisa Cholodenko, 2014), quality television and difficult women: female discontent in the age of binge-viewing 3. Teresa Fernández-Valdés and female-produced TV series in Spain. Cable Girls/Las chicas del cable as case study 4. Mar Coll's Matar al padre / Killing the Father (Movistar+ 2018): a female Auteur between filmand television in Spain 5. Breaking upwards: the creative uncoupling of Desiree Akhavan and Ingrid Jungermann 6. Drawn (to) independence: female showrunners in contemporary American TV animation 7. Sorority flow: the rhetoric of sisterhood in post-network television