Masculinity In Contemporary Quality Television


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Masculinity In Contemporary Quality Television


Masculinity In Contemporary Quality Television
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Author : Michael Mario Albrecht
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-03

Masculinity In Contemporary Quality Television written by Michael Mario Albrecht and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with Social Science categories.


Recent years have seen a rise in the popularity and quantity of ’quality’ television programs, many of which featuring complicated versions of masculinity that are informed not only by the women’s movement of the sixties and seventies, but also by several decades of backlash and debate about the effects of women’s equality on men, masculinity, and the relationship between men and women. Drawing upon studies of contemporary television programs, including popular series viewed internationally such as Mad Men, The League, Hung, Breaking Bad, Louie, and Girls, this book explores the ways in which popular cultural texts address widely circulating discourses of the ostensible ’crisis of masculinity’ in contemporary culture. A rich study of masculinity and its representation in contemporary television, Masculinity in Contemporary Quality Television will appeal to scholars and students of cultural and media studies, popular culture, television studies and cultural sociology with interests in gender, masculinities, and sexuality.



Contemporary Quality Tv


Contemporary Quality Tv
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Author : Saskia M. Fürst
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2021-06-17

Contemporary Quality Tv written by Saskia M. Fürst and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-17 with categories.


Ever since HBO's slogan "It's Not TV, It's HBO" launched in 1996, so-called quality television has reached a new level of marketing, recognition, and indeed quality. With other networks imitating the formula, the "HBO effect" triggered a wave of creative output. This turn to quality set off two shifts: (a) Contemporary television staged an international resurgence of the auteur, and (b) America transformed into an "on-demand nation." The chapters in this volume analyze new television lifestyles including marginalized perspectives, fan participation, and an emerging nostalgia correlated with trash aesthetics.



Masculinity And Popular Television


Masculinity And Popular Television
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Author : Rebecca Feasey
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-06

Masculinity And Popular Television written by Rebecca Feasey and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-06 with Performing Arts categories.


This book is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the key debates concerning the representation of masculinities in a wide range of popular television genres. The volume looks at the depiction of public masculinity in the soap opera, homosexuality in the situation comedy, the portrayal of fatherhood in prime-time animation, emerging manhood in the supernatural teen text, alternative gender roles in science fiction, male authority in the police series, masculine anxieties in the hospital drama, violence and aggression in sports coverage, ordinariness and emotional connectedness in the reality game show, and domesticity in lifestyle television. Masculinity and Popular Television examines the ways in which masculinities are being constructed, circulated and interrogated in contemporary British and American programming, and considers the ways in which such images can be understood in relation to the 'common sense' model of the hegemonic male that is said to dominate the cultural landscape.



Crisis And Masculinity On Contemporary Cable Television Tracing The Western Hero In Breaking Bad The Walking Dead And Hell On Wheels


Crisis And Masculinity On Contemporary Cable Television Tracing The Western Hero In Breaking Bad The Walking Dead And Hell On Wheels
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Author : Dominic Schmiedl
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-09-10

Crisis And Masculinity On Contemporary Cable Television Tracing The Western Hero In Breaking Bad The Walking Dead And Hell On Wheels written by Dominic Schmiedl and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-10 with categories.


Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2014 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: magna cum laude, Dresden Technical University, language: English, abstract: Both the "crisis of masculinity" and "quality TV" have been popular discourses in academia in recent years. Many of these contemporary quality TV series feature male anti-heroes at the center of their narratives. This dissertation argues that the constructions of masculinity in series such as "Breaking Bad" and "The Walking Dead" are informed by the Western hero. Furthermore, the dissertation links this recourse to an arguably outmoded model of masculinity to recent crisis tendencies in the USA, most notably the recent economic downturn and the aftermath of September 11 2001. Moreover, the return of the Western hero can be understood as a process of remasculinization in light of the crisis of masculinity.



Contemporary Quality Tv


Contemporary Quality Tv
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Author : LIT Verlag
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag
Release Date : 2020-01-10

Contemporary Quality Tv written by LIT Verlag and has been published by LIT Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-10 with Performing Arts categories.


Ever since HBO's slogan "It's Not TV, It's HBO" launched in 1996, so-called quality television has reached a new level of marketing, recognition, and indeed quality. With other networks imitating the formula, the "HBO effect" triggered a wave of creative output. This turn to quality set off two shifts: (a) Contemporary television staged an international resurgence of the auteur, and (b) America transformed into an "on-demand nation." The chapters in this volume analyze new television lifestyles including marginalized perspectives, fan participation, and an emerging nostalgia correlated with trash aesthetics. Saskia M. Fürst is Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of The Bahamas. Ralph J. Poole is Professor of American Studies at the University of Salzburg, Austria.



Contemporary Masculinities In Fiction Film And Television


Contemporary Masculinities In Fiction Film And Television
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Author : Brian Baker
language : en
Publisher:
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Contemporary Masculinities In Fiction Film And Television written by Brian Baker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with American fiction categories.




Cable Guys


Cable Guys
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Author : Amanda D. Lotz
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2014-03-31

Cable Guys written by Amanda D. Lotz and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-31 with Social Science categories.


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 League, Dexter, and Nip/Tuck, among many others, Amanda D. Lotz identifies the gradual incorporation of second-wave feminism into prevailing gender norms as the catalyst for the contested masculinities on display in contemporary cable dramas. Examining 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, Lotz analyzes how these shows combine feminist approaches to fatherhood and marriage with more traditional constructions of masculine identity that emphasize men’s role as providers. She explores the dynamics of close male friendships both in groups, as in Entourage and Men of a Certain Age, wherein characters test the boundaries between the homosocial and homosexual in their relationships with each other, and in the dyadic intimacy depicted in Boston Legal and Scrubs. Cable Guys provides a much needed look into the under-considered subject of how constructions of masculinity continue to evolve on television.



Conflicting Masculinities


Conflicting Masculinities
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Author : Katherine Byrne
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-06-14

Conflicting Masculinities written by Katherine Byrne and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-14 with Performing Arts categories.


Never before has period drama offered viewers such an assortment of complex male characters, from transported felons and syphilitic detectives to shell shocked soldiers and gangland criminals. Neo-Victorian Gothic fictions like Penny Dreadful represent masculinity at its darkest, Poldark and Outlander have refashioned the romantic hero and anti-heritage series like Peaky Blinders portray masculinity in crisis, at moments when the patriarchy was being bombarded by forces like World War I, the rise of first wave feminism and the breakdown of Empire. Scholars of film, media, literature and history explore the very different types of maleness offered by contemporary television and show how the intersection of class, race, history and masculinity in period dramas has come to hold such broad appeal to twenty-first-century audiences.



Crisis And Masculinity On Contemporary Cable Television Tracing The Western Hero In Breaking Bad The Walking Dead And Hell On Wheels


Crisis And Masculinity On Contemporary Cable Television Tracing The Western Hero In Breaking Bad The Walking Dead And Hell On Wheels
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Author : Dominic Schmiedl
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2015-09-08

Crisis And Masculinity On Contemporary Cable Television Tracing The Western Hero In Breaking Bad The Walking Dead And Hell On Wheels written by Dominic Schmiedl and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-08 with Literary Collections categories.


Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2014 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: magna cum laude, Dresden Technical University, language: English, abstract: Both the "crisis of masculinity" and "quality TV" have been popular discourses in academia in recent years. Many of these contemporary quality TV series feature male anti-heroes at the center of their narratives. This dissertation argues that the constructions of masculinity in series such as "Breaking Bad" and "The Walking Dead" are informed by the Western hero. Furthermore, the dissertation links this recourse to an arguably outmoded model of masculinity to recent crisis tendencies in the USA, most notably the recent economic downturn and the aftermath of September 11 2001. Moreover, the return of the Western hero can be understood as a process of remasculinization in light of the crisis of masculinity.



The Aesthetics Of Nostalgia Tv


The Aesthetics Of Nostalgia Tv
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Author : Alex Bevan
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2019-02-07

The Aesthetics Of Nostalgia Tv written by Alex Bevan and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-07 with Performing Arts categories.


The Aesthetics of Nostalgia TV explores the aesthetic politics of nostalgia for 1950s and 60s America on contemporary television. Specifically, it looks at how nostalgic TV production design shapes and is shaped by larger historical discourses on gender and technological change, and America's perceived decline as a global power. Alex Bevan argues that the aesthetics of nostalgic TV tell stories of their own about historical decline and progress, and the place of the baby boomer television suburb in American national memory. She contests theories on nostalgia that see it as stagnating, regressive, or a reversion to outdated gender and racial politics, and the technophobic longing for a bygone era; and, instead, argues nostalgia is an important form of historical memory and vehicle for negotiating periods of historical transition. The book addresses how and why the shows construct the boomer era as a placeholder for gender, racial, technological, and declensionist discourses of the present. The book uses Mad Men (AMC, 2007-2015), Ugly Betty (ABC, 2006-2010), Desperate Housewives (ABC, 2004-2012), and film remakes of 1950s and 60s family sitcoms as primary case studies.