Television, Sex and Society

Analyzing Contemporary Representations

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

AvBeth Johnson,James Aston,Basil Glynn

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Since the 1990s, the screening of sex on American, British and Asian television screens has become increasingly prolific. Considering not only the specificities of selected sexualised images in relation to popular series, this study also concerns itself with the ramifications of TV sex as well as discussing the various techniques that are used by TV producers/programme makers to establish the cultural worth of their texts in series such as Shameless, The Tudors and True Blood. The contributions draw attention to shifting representations of sex on television away from the authoritarian state and patriarchal order, toward a more democratic form of representation. As a significant and under-represented aspect of contemporary television studies, this is the first full-length academic collection to consider the wide-ranging representations of sex in society on contemporary television.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-06-14
Mått152 x 229 x 12 mm
Vikt356 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagContinuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN9780826434982

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Introduction - by editors. Part I - The [move toward] Democratization of Sex?. Chapter 1: Sex on the 'Set': Pornographic Transgressions ; Chapter 2: Shameless Sex, Democratizing Desire and Libidinous Ambitions. Chapter 3: Fangbanging . Chapter 4: True Blood. Part II - The Sublimination of Sex. Chapter 5: Examining the Importance of 'no-sex' Sex in Pushing Daisies (2007-2009). Chapter 6: My Lovely Sam-soon: Absent Sex and the Unbearable Lightness of Cute Korean Romance ; Chapter 7: Television X-cised: Viewing Habits of British Adult Channels ; Part III - Production Context and Representation of Sex ; Chapter 8: 'I Cannot Talk of Books in a Ball-room': Erotic Austen ; Chapter 9: Performance Anxiety and Period Dramas: Lesbian Sex on the BBC ; Chapter 10: The Conquests of Henry VIII: Masculinity, Sex and the National Past in The Tudors ; Conclusion - by the editors.

Television scholars have surely embraced the medium's engagement with sexuality, but Television, Sex and Society brings a much needed focus on the sex act (or lack thereof) itself. It deftly examines issues of production, reception, and text while breaking down the televised portrayal of sex through sensitive engagements with areas such as class (Channel 4's Shameless), nation and genre (BBC's Tipping the Velvet and South Korea's My Lovely Sam-Soon), sexualized power relations (British pornography and Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and abstinence (Pushing Daisies). It's surely a much welcome collection addressing an overlooked facet of today's highly sexualized television landscape. --Kelly Kessler, PhD, Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies, DePaul University

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