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Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community

Everything I Know about Relationships I Learned from Television
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 2016

Summary

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.

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Copyright year
2016
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-1295-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-1296-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
254
Product type
Edited Book

Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
    2. Acknowledgments No access
  1. Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
    1. Chapter One: All I Want for Christmas is You No access
    2. Chapter Two: “HBIC” No access
    3. Chapter Three: “There’s an app for that” No access
    1. Chapter Four: “The Man Inside Me” No access
    2. Chapter Five: Fatherhood, Fidelity, and Friendship No access
    3. Chapter Six: “The Suitcase” and “The Strategy” No access
    1. Chapter Seven: The Primetime Drama and the Centrality of Hegemonic Masculinity in Rape Narratives No access
    2. Chapter Eight: A Rhetorical Vision of Tolerance No access
    1. Chapter Nine: Television, Sports, and Twitter No access
    2. Chapter Ten: Something to Look Forward To No access
    3. Chapter Eleven: Kickstarting Veronica Mars No access
  2. Bibliography No access Pages 229 - 244
  3. Index No access Pages 245 - 248
  4. About the Contributors and Editors No access Pages 249 - 254

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