The emergence of -male-centered serials- such as The Shield, Rescue Me, and Sons Of Anarchy and the challenges these characters face in negotiating modern masculinities. From the meth-dealing but devoted family man Walter White of AMC's Breaking Bad, to the part-time basketball coach, part-time gigolo Ray Drecker of HBO's Hung, depictions of male characters perplexed by societal expectations of men and anxious about changing American masculinity have become standard across the television landscape. Engaging with a wide variety of shows, including The...
The emergence of -male-centered serials- such as The Shield, Rescue Me, and Sons Of Anarchy and the challenges these characters face in neg...
The emergence of -male-centered serials- such as The Shield, Rescue Me, and Sons Of Anarchy and the challenges these characters face in negotiating modern masculinities. From the meth-dealing but devoted family man Walter White of AMC's Breaking Bad, to the part-time basketball coach, part-time gigolo Ray Drecker of HBO's Hung, depictions of male characters perplexed by societal expectations of men and anxious about changing American masculinity have become standard across the television landscape. Engaging with a wide variety of shows, including The...
The emergence of -male-centered serials- such as The Shield, Rescue Me, and Sons Of Anarchy and the challenges these characters face in neg...
Go behind the TV screen to explore what is changing, why it is changing, and why the changes matters. Many proclaimed the -end of television- in the early years of the twenty-first century, as capabilities and features of the boxes that occupied a central space in American living rooms for the preceding fifty years were radically remade. In this revised, second edition of her definitive book, Amanda D. Lotz proves that rumors of the death of television were greatly exaggerated and explores how new distribution and viewing technologies have resurrected the medium. Shifts in...
Go behind the TV screen to explore what is changing, why it is changing, and why the changes matters. Many proclaimed the -end of tel...
An engaging and accessible introduction to the field, Understanding Media Industries helps students develop deeper and more critical knowledge of industries. This book provides students with a thorough discussion of how media industries work, why they work as they do, and the broader theoretical and practical implications of media industry structure and function. The authors' unique Industrialization of Culture Framework organizes the book and helps students to consider media industries in different nations and historical periods.
An engaging and accessible introduction to the field, Understanding Media Industries helps students develop deeper and more critical knowledg...
