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Television, Sex and Society: Analyzing Contemporary Representations

Editat de Beth Johnson, James Aston, Dr Basil Glynn
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 aug 2012
Since the 1990s, the screening of sex on American, British and Asian television screens has become increasingly prolific. Considering not only the specificities of selected sexualised images in relation to popular series, this study also concerns itself with the ramifications of TV sex as well as discussing the various techniques that are used by TV producers/programme makers to establish the cultural worth of their texts in series such as Shameless, The Tudors and True Blood. The contributions draw attention to shifting representations of sex on television away from the authoritarian state and patriarchal order, toward a more democratic form of representation. As a significant and under-represented aspect of contemporary television studies, this is the first full-length academic collection to consider the wide-ranging representations of sex in society on contemporary television.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780826434982
ISBN-10: 0826434983
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Discusses various techniques used by TV producers/programmers to establish the cultural worth of their texts

Notă biografică

Dr. James Aston is a lecturer in Film at the University of Hull. His PhD was on cinematic representations of the past and has published on post 9/11 apocalyptic cinema.
Dr Basil Glynn is a Lecturer in Film Studies in the Department of Media, Film & Communications, Liverpool Hope University.

Cuprins

Introduction - by editors
Part I - The [move toward] Democratization of Sex?
Chapter 1: Sex on the 'Set': Pornographic Transgressions

Chapter 2: Shameless Sex, Democratizing Desire and Libidinous Ambitions
Chapter 3: Fangbanging

Chapter 4: True Blood

Part II - The Sublimination of Sex

Chapter 5: Examining the Importance of 'no-sex' Sex in Pushing Daisies (2007-2009)

Chapter 6: My Lovely Sam-soon: Absent Sex and the Unbearable Lightness of Cute Korean Romance

Chapter 7: Television X-cised: Viewing Habits of British Adult Channels

Part III - Production Context and Representation of Sex

Chapter 8: 'I Cannot Talk of Books in a Ball-room': Erotic Austen

Chapter 9: Performance Anxiety and Period Dramas: Lesbian Sex on the BBC 

Chapter 10: The Conquests of Henry VIII: Masculinity, Sex and the National Past in The Tudors

Conclusion - by the editors

Recenzii

Television scholars have surely embraced the medium's engagement with sexuality, but Television, Sex and Society brings a much needed focus on the sex act (or lack thereof) itself. It deftly examines issues of production, reception, and text while breaking down the televised portrayal of sex through sensitive engagements with areas such as class (Channel 4's Shameless), nation and genre (BBC's Tipping the Velvet and South Korea's My Lovely Sam-Soon), sexualized power relations (British pornography and Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and abstinence (Pushing Daisies). It's surely a much welcome collection addressing an overlooked facet of today's highly sexualized television landscape. --Kelly Kessler, PhD, Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies, DePaul University
In examining a selection of disparate texts, the book nevertheless usefully explores some of the institutional strategies and adopted modes of representation that allow, validate and exploit our voyeuristic fascination with sex on TV.