Dawson's Creek: A Critical Understanding - Critical Studies in Television (Hardback)
Lori Bindig (author)Published: 29/11/2007
Dawson's Creek: A Critical Understanding provides a textual analysis of the WB's hit teen drama that ran from 1998 to 2003. Author Lori Bindig analyzes episodes of Dawson's Creek as a set of media texts that blur the boundaries between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic content. Exploring the ideology encoded within Dawson's Creek from a feminist cultural studies perspective, Bindig examines gender, race, class, sexuality, and consumerism as it is presented in the show. The depiction of each of these five ideological concepts is discussed beyond the framework of the series and put into a larger social context, allowing a discussion of the potential ramifications of the television program. This book suggests that although Dawson's Creek includes counter-hegemonic story lines, ultimately the political-economic realities of the current media system undercuts the oppositional content and frames the program as hegemonic. Nevertheless, Dawson's Creek is a valuable tool in navigating the ongoing struggle against social inequality, illustrating how far society has come and how far it has yet to go.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739122211
Number of pages: 188
Weight: 458 g
Dimensions: 236 x 160 x 20 mm
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Dawson's Creek: A Critical Understanding impressively deconstructs one of the most influential and popular "Teen TV" programs in history. Using detailed analysis, Lori Bindig highlights the symbolic complexity of the series and illustrates how youth culture intersects with different ideological dimensions, including gender, race, class, sexual orientation and brand-obsessed consumption. - Matthew P. McAllister, Pennsylvania State University
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