Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community: Everything I Know about Relationships I Learned from Television

By Noah J. Springer

Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community analyzes how television narratives form the first decade of the twenty-first century are powerful socializing agents which both define and limit the types of acceptable interpersonal relationships between co-workers, friends, romantic partners, family members, communities, and nations. This book is written by a diverse group of scholars who used a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches to interrogate the ways through which television molds our vision of ourselves as individuals, ourselves as in relationships with others, and ourselves as a part of the world. This book will appeal to scholars of communication studies, cultural studies, media studies, and popular culture studies.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149851295X
• ISBN13: 9781498512954
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"