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Informationen zum Autor Kathleen M. Ryan spent more than twenty years in network and local news production and she continues to work as an active multimedia director and producer. She holds a PhD in communication and society from University of Oregon, an MA in broadcast journalism from University of Southern California, and a BA in political science from University of California, Santa Barbara. She is an associate professor at the University of Colorado.Deborah A. Macey holds a PhD in communication and society from the University of Oregon, an MA in Communication and a BS in Business Administration from Saint Louis University. She is a visiting assistant professor at Saint Louis University, where she teaches courses in human communication and media studies. Klappentext Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and television's prominent voice and place in the home, it is likely we learn about our society and selves through these stories. These narratives are not simply entertainment, but powerful socializing agents that shape and reflect the world and our role in it. Television and the Self: Knowledge, Identity, and Media Representation brings together a diverse group of scholars to investigate the role television plays in shaping our understanding of self and family. This edited collection's rich and diverse research demonstrates how television plays an important role in negotiating self, and goes far beyond the treacly "very special" episodes found in family sit-coms in the 1980s. Instead, the authors show how television reflects our reality and helps us to sort out what it means to be a twenty-first-century man or woman. Zusammenfassung Media scholars attempt to assess how the media informs and shapes the way we view our lives. This book explores the multiple influences of television in a media landscape that is becoming increasingly fractured. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: IntroductionKathleen M. Ryan & Deborah A. MaceyPart 1: The Electronic Hearth, or the (un)Real World Chapter 2: The Way We Were: Ritual, Memory and TelevsionLeah A. RosenbergChapter 3: Becoming-Spectator: Tracing Global Becoming Through Polish Television in a Canadian Family RoomMarcelina PiotrowskiPart 2: Father (and Mother) Knows BestChapter 4: As Seen On TV: Media Influences of Pregnancy and Birth NarrativesJennifer G. HallChapter 5: All About My HBO Mothers: Talking Back to Carmela Soprano and Ruth FisherAndrée E. C. BetancourtChapter 6: Mad Hatters: The Bad Dads of AMCDavid StatonPart 3: Family TiesChapter 7: Family Communication and Television: Viewing, Identification, and Evaluation of Televised Family Communication ModelsEllen E. Stiffler, Lynne M. Webb, and Amy C. DuvallChapter 8: Reality Check: Real Housewives and Fan Discourses on Parenting and FamilyJingsi Christina Wu and Brian McKernan Chapter 9: Keeping Up with Contradictory Family Values: The Voice of the KardashiansAmanda S. McClain Part 4: The Facts of LifeChapter 10: The Selling of Gender-Role Stereotyping: A Content Analysis of Toy Commercials Airing on NickelodeonSusan G. KahlenbergChapter 11: "Stand by, Space Rangers": Interstellar Lessons in Early Cold-War MasculinityCynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper Chapter 12: The Avengers and Feminist Identity Development: Learning the Example of Critical Resistance from Cathy GaleRobin Redmond WrightChapter 13: Juno for Real: Negotiating Teenage Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Love in MTV's 16 and Pregnant/Teen MomTanja N. Aho.Part 5: As Not Seen on TVChapter 14: Race, Aging and Gay In/visibility on U.S. TelevsionMichael Johnson, Jr.Chapter 15: Eighty is Still Eighty, but Everyone Else Needs to Look Twenty-Five: The Fascination with Betty White Despite our Obsession with YouthDeborah A. Macey...
