Ryan, Kathleen M.

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.

9781498512961


Television programs - Influence.


Electronic books.

HM1111 -- .F754 2016eb

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