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Genre, Consumption and Identity
Teen TV
Genre, Consumption and Identity
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Description
Teen TV is the first anthology dedicated to a broad range of television programmes produced for and watched by teenagers. With extensive coverage of shows such as Dawson's Creek, Roswell, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Australia's Heartbreak High, the book examines how these dramas construct and reaffirm distinct visions of 'youth'. Addressing a number of fundamental questions, the contributors ask: Is teen TV a genre in its own right? What other narrative forms do these programmes draw upon and why? How does teen TV interact with other entertainment industries, such as those of music and cinema? What position does teen TV hold within wider practices of consumption and identity inscription? The book offers a fascinating survey of the different forms teen TV takes and the many ways in which it is produced and consumed.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Glyn Davis and Kay Dickinson
I: Genre
1. A Boy for All Planets: Roswell, Smallville and the Teen Male Melodrama, Miranda ]. Banks, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
2. Teen Futures: Discourses of Alienation, the Social and Technology in Australian Science-Fiction Television Series, Leonie Rutherford, University of New England, Australia
3. Chosen Ones: Reading the Contemporary Teen Heroine, Jenny Bavidge, University of Greenwich, UK
4. Dawson's Creek: 'Quality Teen TV' and 'Mainstream Cult'? Matt Hills, Cardiff University, UK
II: Consumption
5. 'So Who's Got Time for Adults!': Femininity, Consumption and the Development of Teen TV –
from Gidget to Buffy, Bill Osgerby, London Metropolitan University, UK
6. Selling Teen Culture: How American Multimedia Conglomeration Reshaped Teen Television in the 1990s, Valerie Wee, National University of Singapore
7. 'My Generation': Popular Music, Age and Influence in Teen Drama of the 1990s, Kay Dickinson, King's College, London, UK
8. Total Request Live and the Creation of Virtual Community, Richard K. Olsen, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA
III: Identity
9.'Saying It Out Loud': Revealing Television's Queer Teens, Glyn Davis, Edinburgh College of Art, UK
10. Dormant Dormitory Friendships: Race and Gender in Felicity, Sharon Ross, University of Texas, Austin, USA
11. 'We Don't Need No Education': Adolescents and the School in Contemporary Australian Teen TV, Kate Douglas and Kelly McWilliam, University of Queensland, Australia
12. Roswell High, Alien Chic and the In/Human, Neil Badmington, Cardiff University, UK
13. 'Feels Like Home': Dawson's Creek, Nostalgia and the Young Adult Viewer, Clare Birchall, Middlesex University, UK
Index
Product details
| Published | 07 Mar 2004 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 205 |
| ISBN | 9780851709994 |
| Imprint | British Film Institute |
| Illustrations | illustrated |
| Dimensions | 234 x 153 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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