21st-Century TV Dramas: Exploring the New Golden Age

by Amy M. Damico, Sara E. Quay

Overview

In its exploration of some of the most influential, popular, or critically acclaimed television dramas since the year 2000, this book documents how modern television dramas reflect our society through their complex narratives about prevailing economic, political, security, and social issues.

• Identifies and explores connections between critically acclaimed television dramas and real life in the 21st century

• Documents the qualities of television drama series since the turn of the 21st century in the latest era in television that some refer to as the "third golden age of television"

• Offers accessible analysis of popular and current television dramas relevant to educators and students in the fields of media studies, television, and popular culture as well as anyone who enjoys modern television drama

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440833458
Publisher:	ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date:	02/12/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	223
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Amy M. Damico, PhD, is professor of communication at Endicott College in Beverly, MA, and is faculty advisor to the Endicott College Scholars honors program.

Sara E. Quay is dean of the school of education at Endicott College in Beverly, MA, and is director of the Endicott College Scholars honors program.

Table of Contents

Introduction
What Is a Golden Age?
How to Read This Book
1 Stories and Audiences
Storytelling in the Age of Convergence Culture
Literary TV
Side Note: Mad Men
Twenty-First-Century Television Viewing and Netflix's House of Cards
Jane the Virgin: The New Telenovela
Side Note: Dual-Language Dramas
ASD on TV
2 Safe and Unsafe
Rescue Me and Recovery from 9/1138
Terrorism, Torture, and Trust in Counterterrorism Narratives
Protecting the Homeland
Side Note: The Russians in The Americans
Side Note: Comic Book TV
You Are Being Watched: Person of Interest and Citizen Monitoring
3 Women and Men
Black Female Leads on Network Television
Side Note: Diversity in Orange Is the New Black
Walter White and the Great Recession
Patriarchy and the Past
Side Note: Antiheroes
Masters of Sex and Gender
Words Matter in Amazon's Transparent
4 Home and Work
Friday Night Lights' Mothers and Daughters
Big Love's New Family Values
The Good 21st-Century Television Drama
Side Note: The Death of Will Gardner
The Newsroom's Assessment of New Media
5 Fact and Fiction
Prison Reform and Orange Is the New Black
Downton Abbey Economics
Mountaintop Removal Mining in Justified
Visions of AI
Side Note: Orphan Black's Clones
Side Note: American Crime
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries.” —Choice

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