Religion Across Television Genres: Community, Orange Is the New Black, the Walking Dead, and Supernatural

ISBN-13: 9781433152795 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 162 str.

Joseph M. Valenzano III; Erika Engstrom

Opis

Religion Across Television Genres: Community, Orange Is the New Black, The Walking Dead, and Supernatural connects communication theories to the religious content of TV programs from an array of forms and content genres.

Recenzje

"Through their close analysis of the 'sign-vehicles' within television programs across a range of genres, Joseph M. Valenzano III and Erika Engstrom show us how television both mirrors how religion is lived in America and performs a subtle but significant sermonic function in authorizing and adumbrating religious belief. Religion Across Television Genres would greatly enrich any course in religious communication or mass media and society. I recommend it highly." -Dennis D. Cali, Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Texas at Tyler

Spis treści

Acknowledgements - Introduction - The (Unseen) Order of the Study Group: NBC's Community and Religious Humor - Adherence and Adherents in Netflix's Orange Is the New Black - Redefining Religious Boundaries in AMC's The Walking Dead - Hunting Monsters, Finally Finding God in the CW's Supernatural - Conclusion - Index.

O autorze

Joseph M. Valenzano III (PhD, Georgia State University) is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Dayton.

Erika Engstrom (PhD, University of Florida) is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.