Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community: Everything I Know about Relationships I Learned from Television

ISBN-13: 9781498512954 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 262 str.

Kathleen M. Ryan; Noah J. Springer; Deborah A. Macey

Opis

This book analyzes both how complex, interpersonal relationships were depicted in and were influenced by television programs in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Television remains the dominant medium for viewers to consume narratives which educate viewers about themselves, their worlds, and their relationships. Television narratives are powerful socializing agents which both define and limit the types of acceptable interpersonal relationships between co-workers, friends, romantic partners, family members, communities, and nations. This book is written by a diverse group of scholars who used a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches to interrogate the ways through which television molds our vision of ourselves as individuals, ourselves as in relationships with others, and ourselves as a part of the world.