Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community: Everything I Know about Relationships I Learned from Television...

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Kathleen M. Ryan Noah J. Springer

Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community

Everything I Know about Relationships I Learned from Television

Kathleen M. Ryan, Noah J. Springer, Deborah A. Macey , Mary Erickson

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Lexington Books
26 May 2016

Media studies; Sociology: family & relationships; Radio & television industry

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Communication and Storytelling

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.

Contributions by: Lauren Bratslavsky
Edited by: Kathleen M. Ryan, Noah J. Springer, Deborah A. Macey, Mary Erickson
Imprint: Lexington Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 237mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 553g
ISBN: 9781498512954
ISBN 10: 149851295X
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Communication and Storytelling
Pages: 262
Publication Date: 26 May 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Mary Erickson is visiting assistant professor of communication studies at Western Washington University. Deborah A. Macey is lecturer at the University of Washington Tacoma. Kathleen M. Ryan is associate professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Noah J. Springer is independent scholar.

Reviews for Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community: Everything I Know about Relationships I Learned from Television

Bringing together a diverse group of scholars, Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community explores the various ways that television shapes our many relationships in life. Taking seriously the role that television (and television-like content) plays in our life, the authors make nuanced and careful arguments about love and romance, family and friends, identity and culture, and fandom and community. From Christmas TV movies to Veronica Mars, from Arrested Development to Mad Men, the range of topics are as diverse as the television content analyzed. For those with even a passing interest in the development of contemporary television content, this is must-read scholarship! -- Paul Booth, DePaul University