ISBN:
9780786435890
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (261 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Teen Television : Essays on Programming and Fandom
DDC:
302.23450835
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This essay collection explores the phenomenon of ""teen TV"" in the United States, analyzing the meanings and manifestations of this category of programming from a variety of perspectives. Part One views teen television through an industrial perspective, examining how networks such as WB, UPN, The CW, and The N have created a unique economic framework based on demographic niches and teen-focused narrowcasting. Part Two focuses on popular teen programs from a cultural context, evaluating how such programs reflect and at times stretch the envelope of the cultural contexts in which they are creat
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover ; Contents ; Preface ; Introduction: Watching Teen TV; Part I-The Industrial Context of Teen TV; 1. TV Teen Club: Teen TV as Safe Harbor (Jeff Martin); 2. Teen Television and the WB Television Network (Valerie Wee); 3. Defining Teen Culture: The N Network (Sharon Marie Ross); 4. Rocking Prime Time: Gender, the Wb, and Teen Culture (Ben Aslinger); Part II-Teens on TV; 5. "Normal Is the Watchword": Exiling Cultural Anxieties and Redefining Desire from the Margins (Caralyn Bolte); 6. Riding the Third Wave: The Multiple Feminisms of Gilmore Girls (Francesca Gamber)
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7. "That girl of yours-she's pretty hardboiled, huh?": Detecting Feminism in Veronica Mars (Andrea Braithwaite) 8. The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Fan: Consumption and Queer Inspiration in Six Feet Under (Barbara Brickman) ; 9. "They Stole Me": The O.C., Masculinity, and the Strategies of Teen TV (Sue Turnbull); Part III-Cultures of Reception; 10. Fashion Sleuths and Aerie Girls: Veronica Mars' Fan Forums and Network Strategies of Fan Address (Jennifer Gillan)
Description / Table of Contents:
11. The Adventures of a Repressed Farm Boy and the Billionaire Who Loves Him: Queer Spectatorship in Smallville Fandom (Melanie E.S. Kohnen)12. Pushing at the Margins: Teenage Angst in Teen TV and Audience Response (Louisa Ellen Stein) ; Contributors; Index
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