Performing Arts : Television

Naficy explores the seemingly contradictory way in which immigrant media and cultural productions serve as the source both of resistance and opposition to the domination by host and home country’s social values while simultaneously serving as vehicles for personal and cultural transformation and assimilation of those values. more...

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This book is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the key debates concerning the representation of masculinities in a wide range of popular television genres. The volume looks at the depiction of public masculinity in the soap opera, homosexuality in the situation comedy, the portrayal of fatherhood in prime-time animation, emerging manhood in the supernatural teen text, alternative gender roles in science fiction, male authority in the police series, masculine anxieties in the hospital drama, violence and aggression in sports coverage, ordinariness and emotional connectedness in the reality game show, and domesticity in lifestyle television. Masculinity and Popular Television examines the ways in which masculinities are being constructed, circulated and interrogated in contemporary British and American programming, and considers the ways in which such images can be understood in relation to the 'common sense' model of the hegemonic male that is said to dominate the cultural landscape. Key Features. *Offers a clear and comprehensive overview of existing theoretical debates concerning the representation of masculinities on the small screen. *Explores various representations of masculinities across a wide range of popular television genres. *Draws on a broad range of today’s most critically and commercially successful television programmes in order to make the volume both accessible and enjoyable for the reader. more...

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The facts behind the addictive medical drama. * How can a teenager adopted at birth nearly die because his real mother didn’t get a measles shot?. *. How can a husband’s faith in his wife’s fidelity determine whether radical treatment will cure her or kill her?. *. How can a missed eye doctor appointment reveal a genetic disease?. *. How can doctors choose the right course for a pregnant woman when one may kill her and the other would abort her fetus?. Answers to these questions and more are pursued every week on House, M.D. Premiering in November 2004, the darkly quirky medical drama introduced a compelling new character to prime-time television: the sarcastic, abrasive?and brilliant?Dr. Gregory House. Week after week, House has held viewers’ attention with brilliant cast performances and intriguing diagnostic mysteries often solved with daring treatments. But how much of the medical detail is real and how much is fabricated? In The Medical Science of House, M.D., Andrew Holtz, a well-known medical journalist, reveals how medical detectives work?how they follow symptoms to their source. He examines each case in detail?and provides answers for every viewer who has ever wondered about the authenticity of their favorite show. more...

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Illuminating the unstable relationship between commercial television programs, liberal democratic values, and white supremacist ideology, Monitored Peril clearly demonstrates the pervasiveness of racialized discourse in the U.S. more...

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In applying narratological concepts to studies of television series, this collection offers new insights for media studies and for narrative theories. Expanding the traditional boundaries of narrative theory, these essays address the question of how form, content and function intersect in television series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Blackadd more...

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