Masculinity and Popular Television / / Rebecca Feasey.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION: THEORISING MASCULINITIES ON THE SMALL SCREEN
- 2. SOAP OPERA: THE MALE ROLE IN THE WOMEN’S GENRE
- 3. SITUATION COMEDY: HOMOSEXUALITY AND MALE CAMARADERIE
- 4. ANIMATION: MASCULINITY IN THE NUCLEAR FAMILY
- 5. TEEN PROGRAMMING: ISOLATION, ALIENATION AND EMERGING MANHOOD
- 6. SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY TELEVISION: CHALLENGING DOMINANT GENDER ROLES
- 7. HOSPITAL DRAMA: REASSURANCE, ANXIETY AND THE DOCTOR-HERO
- 8. POLICE AND CRIME DRAMA: INVESTIGATING MALE AUTHORITY
- 9. SPORTS: MEDIA EVENTS AND MASCULINE DISCOURSE
- 10. REALITY TELEVISION: ORDINARINESS, EXHIBITIONISM AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
- 11. LIFESTYLE: DOMESTIC LABOUR AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES
- 12. ADVERTISING: SOCIAL LIFE, SOCIAL STANDING AND SEX
- 13. CONCLUSION: THE FUTURE OF MASCULINITY ON TELEVISION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX