Overview

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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Author:   Beth Johnson ,  James Aston ,  Dr Basil Glynn (Middlesex University, UK)
Publisher:   Continuum Publishing Corporation
Imprint:   Continuum Publishing Corporation
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781441179456

ISBN 10:   1441179453
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   14 June 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

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

Reviews

Eleven essays analyze sex and sexuality in contemporary television programming (three focusing on the vampire genre), with two of the chapters presenting material from beyond the familiar Anglophone world... Television, Sex and Society is welcome for what it adds to our knowledge of the relationship between these three vast subjects, to how it employs the existing literature in its analyses, and especially for bringing a couple of non-English-language programs and genres to the attention of English-speaking scholars and students. 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 Anthropology Reviews Database

Author Information

Dr. James Aston is a lecturer in Film at the University of Hull. His PhD was on cinematic representations of the past and has published on post 9/11 apocalyptic cinema. Dr Basil Glynn is a Lecturer in Film Studies in the Department of Media, Film & Communications, Liverpool Hope University.

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