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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819010403321

Titolo

Friends, lovers, co-workers, and community : everything I know about relationships I learned from television / / edited by Kathleen M. Ryan [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016

℗2016

ISBN

1-4985-1296-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

Lexington Studies in Communication and Storytelling

Disciplina

302

Soggetti

Interpersonal relations

Television broadcasting - Social aspects

Television programs - Influence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section 1: Big Love; Chapter One: All I Want for Christmas is You; Chapter Two: "HBIC"; Chapter Three: "There's an app for that"; Section 2: Modern Family; Chapter Four: "The Man Inside Me"; Chapter Five: Fatherhood, Fidelity, and Friendship; Chapter Six: "The Suitcase" and "The Strategy"; Section 3: Homeland; Chapter Seven: The Primetime Drama and the Centrality of Hegemonic Masculinity in Rape Narratives; Chapter Eight: A Rhetorical Vision of Tolerance; Section 4: Community; Chapter Nine: Television, Sports, and Twitter

Chapter Ten: Something to Look Forward ToChapter Eleven: Kickstarting Veronica Mars; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors and Editors

Sommario/riassunto

Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community analyzes both how complex, interpersonal relationships were both depicted in and were influenced by television programs in the first decade of the twenty-first century.