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Cable Guys
eBook - Television and Masculinities in the 21st Century
ISBN/EAN: 9781479800582
Umbreit-Nr.: 219628
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 0 S.
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Erschienen am 31.03.2014
Auflage: 1/2014
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p><b>The emergence of "male-centered serials" such as The Shield, Rescue Me, and Sons Of Anarchy and the challenges these characters face in negotiating modern masculinities.</b>From<br>the meth-dealing but devoted family man Walter White of AMCs Breaking Bad,<br>to the part-time basketball coach, part-time gigolo Ray Drecker of HBOs Hung,<br>depictions of male characters perplexed by societal expectations of men and<br>anxious about changing American masculinity have become standard across the<br>television landscape. Engaging with a wide variety of shows, including The<br>League, Dexter, and Nip/Tuck, among many others, Amanda D. Lotz<br>identifies the gradual incorporation of second-wave feminism into prevailing<br>gender norms as the catalyst for the contested masculinities on display in<br>contemporary cable dramas.<br><br>Examining<br>the emergence of male-centered serials such as The Shield, Rescue Me, and Sons of Anarchy and the challenges these characters face in negotiating<br>modern masculinities, Lotz analyzes how these shows combine feminist approaches<br>to fatherhood and marriage with more traditional constructions of masculine<br>identity that emphasize mens role as providers. She explores the dynamics of<br>close male friendships both in groups, as in Entourage and Men of a<br>Certain Age, wherein characters test the boundaries between the homosocial<br>and homosexual in their relationships with each other, and in the dyadic<br>intimacy depicted in Boston Legal and Scrubs. Cable Guys provides a<br>much needed look into the under-considered subject of how constructions of masculinity<br>continue to evolve on television.</p>
- Autorenportrait
- <b>Amanda D. Lotz</b> is Professor in the Digital Media Research Center at Queensland University of Technology and the author and editor of several books, including<i>Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-funded Video on Demand</i>,<i>Media Disrupted: Surviving Pirates, Cannibals, and Streaming Wars</i> and<i>The Television Will Be Revolutionized, Second Edition</i>.