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Television and the Self
Knowledge, Identity, and Media Representation
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2013
Summary
Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and television’s prominent voice and place in the home, it is likely we learn about our society and selves through these stories. These narratives are not simply entertainment, but powerful socializing agents that shape and reflect the world and our role in it. Television and the Self: Knowledge, Identity, and Media Representation brings together a diverse group of scholars to investigate the role television plays in shaping our understanding of self and family. This edited collection’s rich and diverse research demonstrates how television plays an important role in negotiating self, and goes far beyond the treacly “very special” episodes found in family sit-coms in the 1980s. Instead, the authors show how television reflects our reality and helps us to sort out what it means to be a twenty-first-century man or woman.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7957-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7958-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
292
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
1 Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
2 The Way We Were: Ritual, Memory, and Televsion No access
3 Becoming-Spectator: Tracing Global Becoming through Polish Television in a Canadian Family Room No access
4 As Seen on TV: Media Influences of Pregnancy and Birth Narratives No access
5 All About My HBO Mothers: Talking Back to Carmela Soprano and Ruth Fisher No access
6 Mad Hatters: The Bad Dads of AMC No access
7 Family Communication and Television: Viewing, Identification, and Evaluation of Televised Family Communication Models No access
8 Reality Check: Real Housewives and Fan Discourses on Parenting and Family No access
9 Keeping Up with Contradictory Family Values: The Voice of the Kardashians No access
10 The Selling of Gender-Role Stereotyping: A Content Analysis of Toy Commercials Airing on Nickelodeon No access
11 “Stand by, Space Rangers”: Interstellar Lessons in Early Cold War Masculinity No access
12 The Avengers and Feminist Identity Development: Learning the Example of Critical Resistance from Cathy Gale No access
13 Juno for Real: Negotiating Teenage Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Love in MTV’s 16 and Pregnant/Teen Mom No access
14 Race, Aging, and Gay In/Visibility on U.S. Televsion No access
15 Eighty is Still Eighty, But Everyone Else Needs to Look Twenty-Five: The Fascination with Betty White Despite Our Obsession with Youth No access
Bibliography No access Pages 257 - 281
Index No access Pages 282 - 285
About the Contributors No access Pages 286 - 291
About the Editors No access Pages 292 - 292
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