Full Description
Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community analyzes how television narratives form the first decade of the twenty-first century are powerful socializing agents which both define and limit the types of acceptable interpersonal relationships between co-workers, friends, romantic partners, family members, communities, and nations. This book is written by a diverse group of scholars who used a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches to interrogate the ways through which television molds our vision of ourselves as individuals, ourselves as in relationships with others, and ourselves as a part of the world. This book will appeal to scholars of communication studies, cultural studies, media studies, and popular culture studies.
Contents
Introduction
Mary Erickson
Chapter 1: All I Want for Christmas is You: 'Tis the Season for Holiday Romance
David Staton and Kathleen M. Ryan
Chapter 2: "HBIC": I Love New York, Dominant Ideology, and African American Women's Relationships
Siobhan E. Smith
Chapter 3: "There's an app for that": Teens Using Technology to Control Gender Behavior in the Disney Channel Original Movies Zapped and How to Build a Better Boy
Sabrina K. Pasztor
Chapter 4: "The Man Inside Me": A Freudian Analysis of Familial Relationships in Arrested Development
Noah J. Springer
Chapter 5: Fatherhood, Fidelity, and Friendship: Owen Thoreau Jr. and Men of a Certain Age
Jan Whitt
Chapter 6: "The Suitcase" and "The Strategy": The Pro-Family Feminist Bond Between Mad Men Protagonists Don Draper and Peggy Olson
Jane Marcellus and Erika Engstrom
Chapter 7: The Primetime Drama and the Centrality of Hegemonic Masculinity in Rape Narratives
Teri Del Rosso and Lauren Bratslavsky
Chapter 8: A Rhetorical Vision of Tolerance: Teaching Tolerance through Post-9/11 TV Dramas
William Hart and Fran Hassencahl
Chapter 9: Television, Sports and Twitter: Building Soccer Communities Around the World
John Shrader
Chapter 10: Something To Look Forward To: Understanding the Appeal of Ritualistic Television Coviewing Events
Elizabeth L. Cohen & Alexander L. Lancaster
Chapter 11: Kickstarting Veronica Mars: Rekindling a Parasocial Relationship
Kathryn L. Lookadoo and Norman C. H. Wong
