Teen TV / Stefania Marghitu.

"Teen TV explores the history of television's relationship to teens as a desired, but elusive audience, and the ways in which television has embraced youth subcultures, tracing the shifts in American and global televisual and youth cultures. Organized chronologically to cover each generati...

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Main Author: Marghitu, Stefania (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2021.
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Summary:"Teen TV explores the history of television's relationship to teens as a desired, but elusive audience, and the ways in which television has embraced youth subcultures, tracing the shifts in American and global televisual and youth cultures. Organized chronologically to cover each generation since the inception of the medium in the 1940s, the book examines a wide range of historical and contemporary programming: from the broadcast bottleneck, multi channel era that included youth targeted spaces like MTV, the WB, and the CW, to the rise of streaming platforms and global crossovers. It covers the thematic concerns and narrative structure of the coming of age story, and the prevalent genres of teen TV and milestones faced by teen characters. The book also includes interviews with creators and showrunners of hit network television teen series, including Degrassi's Linda Schulyer, and the costume designer that established a heightened turn in the significance of teen fashion on the small screen in Gossip Girl, Eric Daman. This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and teachers interested in television aesthetics, TV genres, pop culture, and youth culture, as well as media and television studies"--
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781351859677
1351859676
9781315229645
1315229641
9781351859684
1351859684
9781351859660
1351859668
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Biographical or Historical Data:Stefania Marghitu is a visiting faculty member at Pitzer College.She has also taught courses at Chapman University, California State University Northridge, and Columbia College Hollywood.She received her PhD from the University of Southern California's Division of Cinema and Media Studies. Her primary interests deal with critical and cultural studies of television, the showrunner and modes of authorship, production cultures, and feminist media studies. Her dissertation is titled Women Showrunners: Authorship, Identity, and Representation in US Television. She has published in Feminist Media Studies, Communication, Culture and Critique and The Spectator.