Teen TV : genre, consumption, identity / edited by Glyn Davis and Kay Dickinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davis, Glyn (Reader in Screen Studies)

Dickinson, Kay, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television and teenagers.

Teen television programs.

Physical Description:

viii, 197 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : BFI Pub., 2004.

Summary:

This is the first anthology dedicated to a broad range of television programmes produced for and watched by teenagers. With extensive coverage of shows such as Dawson's Creek, Roswell, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Australia's Heartbreak High, the book examines how these dramas construct and reaffirm distinct versions of 'youth'. A number of fundamental questions about teen television are addressed. Is it a genre in its own right? What other narrative forms do these programmes draw upon and why? How does teen television interact with other entertainment industries, such as those of music and cinema? What position does teen television hold within wider practices of consumption and identity inscription? This new book is a fascinating survey of the different forms teen television takes and the multitude of ways in which it is produced and used.

Contents:

Part I Genre

1. A Boy for All Planets: Roswell, Smallville and the Teen Male Melodrama / Miranda J. Banks 17

2. Teen Futures: Discourses of Alienation, the Social and Technology in Australian Science-Fiction Television Series / Leonie Rutherford 29

3. Chosen Ones: Reading the Contemporary Teen Heroine / Jenny Bavidge 41

4. Dawson's Creek: 'Quality Teen TV' and 'Mainstream Cult'? / Matt Hills 54

Part II Consumption

5. 'So Who's Got Time for Adults!': Femininity, Consumption and the Development of Teen TV

from Gidget to Buffy / Bill Osgerby 71

6. Selling Teen Culture: How American Multimedia Conglomeration Reshaped Teen Television in the 1990s / Valerie Wee 87

7. 'My Generation': Popular Music, Age and Influence in Teen Drama of the 1990s / Kay Dickinson 99

8. Total Request Live and the Creation of Virtual Community / Richard K. Olsen 112

Part III Identity

9. 'Saying It Out Loud': Revealing Television's Queer Teens / Glyn Davis 127

10. Dormant Dormitory Friendships: Race and Gender in Felicity / Sharon Ross 141

11. 'We Don't Need No Education': Adolescents and the School in Contemporary Australian Teen TV / Kate Douglas, Kelly McWilliam 151

12. Roswell High, Alien Chic and the In/Human / Neil Badmington 166

13. 'Feels Like Home': Dawson's Creek, Nostalgia and the Young Adult Viewer / Clare Birchall 176.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0851709982

0851709990

OCLC:

53392692