Full Description
This book discusses the role of television drama series on a global scale, analyzing these dramas across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. Contributors consider the role of television dramas as economically valuable cultural products and with their depictions of gender roles, sexualities, race, cultural values, political systems, and religious beliefs as they analyze how these programs allow us to indulge our innate desire to share human narratives in a way that binds us together and encourages audiences to persevere as a community on a global scale. Contributors also go on to explore the role of television dramas as a medium that indulges fantasies and escapism and reckons with reality as it allows audiences to experience emotions of happiness, sorrow, fear, and outrage in both realistic and fantastical scenarios.
Contents
Introduction: Television Dramas as Storytellers of Race and Gender for the Global Village
Diana I. Rios and Carolyn A. Lin
Section I. Fantasy-Science Fiction, Horror, and Mystery
Chapter 1: Luke Cage is Harlem's Captain America: Black Masculinity and Vulnerability in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Graeme John Wilson
Chapter 2: Doctor Who's 13th Doctor: Redefining the Female Lead in Science Fiction Television
Gwendelyn S. Nisbett and Newly Paul
Chapter 3: A Woman in Trouble in Twin Peaks: The Return: Gothic Texts, Magical Technology, and Dreams Within Dreams
Joseph Boisvere
Chapter 4: Arya and Sansa Stark of HBO's The Game of Thrones: Abuse, Agency, Trauma Survival, and Redefined Destinies
Diana I. Rios, Mary Helen Millham, Karin A. Haberlin, and Graciela Quiñones-Rodriguez
Chapter 5: The Protagonists of the Fantasy Drama Lost: From Stereotypes to Flexible Identities
Jérôme David
Section II. Soap Operas and Telenovelas
Chapter 6: Pakistan Television Drama Serials and Telenovelas During
