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Young women today have achieved as much as, and in many cases far exceeded, males in both educational and occupational terms. While this presents many opportunities, it also creates confusion in terms of re-negotiating traditional gender roles. The fictional representation of young women in recent film and television shows demonstrates how these tensions, created by the specific sociopolitical climate of the post-recession era, are being worked out. One specific television show focused on int...
Women on television. --- Sex role on television. --- Women in television --- Women in television plays --- Television --- Sex role in television --- Girls (Television program)
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The successful return of horror to our television screens in the post-millennial years, and across a multi-media range of platforms, demonstrates that this previously moribund genre is once again vibrant, challenging and long-lasting. The traditional TV audience of the past would have watched very few horror TV shows, because not many were made. But that has changed. Programme makers have tapped into their public's insatiable need - in these days of terrorism, violence and mayhem - to provide programmes that have high production values, engaging storylines, and plenty of frights and gore. Horror TV offers a safety-valve for its audience, one that enables them to enter into it from the safety of their armchairs. The era of instant access, streaming, downloading and binge-watching whole seasons over a weekend, where fandom has blossomed into a cultural force, clearly shows horror as a vital part of today's TV scheduling. This edited collection investigates the rising popularity of horror-television through deconstructing the gender roles within them via series of case studies including such programmes as Hannibal, American Horror Story, The Walking Dead, Penny Dreadful, Supernatural, The Exorcist and Bates Motel. By using a series of case studies and employing theoretical modes of close analysis, each chapter demonstrates how and why these TV shows are important in reflecting the changing gender roles within modern society.
Horror television programs --- Sex role on television. --- History and criticism. --- Sex role in television --- Television --- Television programs --- Haunted house television programs --- Monster television programs --- Télévision --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Émissions d'horreur. --- A la télévision. --- Social Science --- Media studies. --- Gender Studies. --- Télévision --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Émissions d'horreur. --- A la télévision.
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'Justice Provocateur' focuses on Prime Suspect, a popular British television film series starring Oscar and Emmy award-winning actress Helen Mirren as fictional London policewoman Jane Tennison. Gray Cavender and Nancy C. Jurik examine the media constructions of justice, gender, and police work in the show, exploring its progressive treatment of contemporary social problems in which women are central protagonists.
Television cop shows --- Sex role on television. --- Women on television. --- Cop shows --- Cop television shows --- Police shows (Television programs) --- Police television shows --- Television police shows --- Television crime shows --- Sex role in television --- Television --- Women in television --- Women in television plays --- History and criticism. --- Prime suspect (Television program)
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The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom examines the evasive depictions of sexuality in domestic and family-friendly sitcoms. Tison Pugh charts the history of increasing sexual depiction in this genre while also unpacking how sitcoms use sexuality as a source of power, as a kind of camouflage, and as a foundation for family building. The book examines how queerness, at first latent, became a vibrant yet continually conflicted part of the family-sitcom tradition. Taking into account elements such as the casting of child actors, the use of and experimentation with plot traditions, the contradictory interpretive valences of comedy, and the subtle subversions of moral standards by writers and directors, Pugh points out how innocence and sexuality conflict on television. As older sitcoms often sit on a pedestal of nostalgia as representative of the Golden Age of the American Family, television history reveals a deeper, queerer vision of family bonds.
Homosexuality and television. --- Homosexuality on television. --- Sex role on television. --- Situation comedies (Television programs) --- Television programs --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Gays on television --- Homosexuality in television --- Television --- Television and homosexuality --- Sitcoms (Television programs) --- Television sitcoms --- Television situation comedies --- Television comedies --- Programs, Television --- Shows, Television --- Television shows --- TV shows --- Television broadcasting --- Electronic program guides (Television) --- Television scripts --- Sex role in television --- History and criticism. --- American family. --- American sitcom. --- child actor. --- comedy. --- family sitcom. --- lgbtq. --- queer. --- sexuality. --- sitcom. --- television.
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"Pretty Liar" explores the rise of language and gender politics on Lebanese television to tell the untold story of the co-evolution of Lebanese television and its audiences and how the civil war of 1975-1991 affected that co-evolution. The shift in public interest in television has been widely acknowledged and interpreted within an institutional context as a victory of the neo-liberal entrepreneurship of a new, agile brand over the government inefficiency of Lebanon's national station, Tele Liban. Yet, the role of the Lebanese Civil War in reshaping national television and broadcasting in Arab media following the emergence of the Lebanese Broadcasting Company in 1985 has been unexplored. Based on empirical data and grounded in theory by Arab and global researchers, "Pretty Liar" offers textual analyses of five Lebanese fictional series, three major and several additional periodicals, and nine literary works, and provides context from unscripted interviews with television administrators, anchors, actors, and freelance contributors, print journalists, and audience members. Khazaal seeks to offer new insight into how entertainment television became a site for politics and political resistance, feminism, and the cradle for post-war Lebanon due to the shift in practices and standards of legitimacy. The history of television in Lebanon is not merely the history of technology and business, Khazaal argues, but rather the history of a people and their continuing quest for a responsive television even during times of civil unrest.
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Mediating the Uprising: Narratives of Gender and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama shows how gender and marriage metaphors inform post-uprising Syrian drama for various forms of cultural and political critique. These narratives have become complicated since the uprising due to the Syrian regime's effort to control the revolutionary discourse. As Syria's uprising spawned more terrorist groups, some drama creators became nostalgic for pre-war days. While for some screenwriters a return to pre-2011 life would be welcome after so much bloodshed, others advocated profound cultural and social transformation, instead. They employed marriage and gender metaphors in the stories they wrote to engage in political critique, even at the risk of creating marketing difficulties for the shows or they created escapist stories such as transnational adaptations and Old Damascus tales. Serving as heritage preservation, Mediating the Uprising underscores that television drama creators in Syria have many ways of engaging in protest, with gender and marriage at the heart of the polemic.
Marriage on television. --- Masculinity on television. --- Sex on television. --- Sex role on television. --- Television programs --- Women on television. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. --- Women in television --- Women in television plays --- Television --- Programs, Television --- Shows, Television --- Television shows --- TV shows --- Television broadcasting --- Electronic program guides (Television) --- Television scripts --- Sex role in television --- Sex in television --- Social aspects --- gender, marriage, Syrian, Television Drama, Global, Politics, Mediating, Uprising, Women's Studies, Film, Media Studies, Communications, Middle East Studies, Popular Culture, Political Science, World, Middle Eastern, Performing Arts, Television, History, Criticism, Social Science, Qabaday, constructing, Fatherhood, Political Protest, post-uprising, cultural critique, political critique, Syrian regime, revolutionary, terrorist groups, nostalgic, pre-war, bloodshed, cultural tranformation, social transformation, culture, transformation, critique, father, mother, motherhood. --- Literature
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