Television, sex and society
Subtitle: analysing contemporary representations
By: edited by Basil Glynn, James Aston, and Beth Johnson
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781441179456; 9780826434982
Subjects: Sex on television
Description: "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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. TV and the democratization of sex; title: Shameless: situating sex beyond the city/ Beth Johnson; title: Sex, society and the slayer/ Madeleine Smith; title: Fangbanging: sexing the vampire in Alan Ball's True Blood/ Melanie Waters; title: True Blood, sex and online fan culture/ Emily Brick; title: Pt. 2. TV and the absence of sex; title: Beekeeper suits, plastic casings, rubber gloves and cling film: examining the importance of "no-sex" sex in Pushing Daisies/ Rebecca Feasey; title: Television x-cised: restricted hardcore and the resisting of the real/ James Aston; title: Imagination in the box: Woju's realism and the representation of Xiaosan/ Ruth Y.Y. Hung; title: My lovely Sam-soon: absent sex and The unbearable lightness of sweet Korean romance/ Jeongmee Kim; title: pt. 3. TV sex and heritage: sexual representation and re-presentation; title: "Why should I hide my regard": erotic Austen/ Jonathon Shears; title: Performance anxiety and costume drama: lesbian sex on the BBC/ Amber Regis; title: The conquests of Henry VIII: masculinity, sex and the national past in The Tudors/ Basil Glynn.