Amanda Fiedler is a PhD candidate, sessional academic and research assistant in the School of Business and Creative Industries at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Amanda’s research explores the sociohistorical intersections of fact and fiction in screen media ecologies, with a focus on representations of gender in media texts and affective engagement as feminist praxis. Amanda previously published the journal article, ‘Contradiction, corporeality, and conformity in Grace
and Frankie’ (2020) in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies.