Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community : Everything I Know about Relationships I Learned from Television.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (264 pages)
- Lexington Studies in Communication and Storytelling Series .
- Lexington Studies in Communication and Storytelling Series .
Intro -- 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 To -- Chapter Eleven: Kickstarting Veronica Mars -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors and Editors.
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.