자료유형  

 학위논문

Control Number  

0017163341

International Standard Book Number  

9798383572108

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

305

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Gershon, Daphne.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

[S.l.] : The University of Wisconsin - Madison., 2024

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024

Physical Description  

291 p.

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-01, Section: B.

General Note  

Advisor: Gray, Jonathan.

Dissertation Note  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2024.

Summary, Etc.  

요약While public imagination often equates sex and its portrayals with (excessive) desire, pleasure, and titillation, these descriptors do not fully encompass the diversity of sexual depictions available within media, and television in particular. To broaden the subject of sexual depictions as a field of inquiry, and advance our understanding of the role sex plays within television, this dissertation analyzes representations that have usually been left out of scholarly and popular understandings of sex: portrayals of sexual dysfunction. Drawing from textual and discourse analysis that looks across a multitude of different television texts and genres, this dissertation examines a variety of supposedly "faulty" sexual depictions, such as expressions of dwindling desire, sexual unfulfillment, anxiety, disconnection, and frustration, and traces the growing visibility of these kinds of representations in the 21st century.Throughout five analysis chapters, I argue that portrayals of sexual dysfunction, through their disruption and breakage of social and bodily expectations, help make the various weighted cultural meanings that media and society ascribe to sex hyper-visible, elucidating the ways in which media link sex to socio-political norms and power dynamics that relate to gender, race, sexual identity, neoliberalism, nationalist anxieties, and global hierarchies. By focusing on the concept of dys-function, and how it exposes the various social functions attributed to sex, this dissertation offers new pathways through which we can better understand the social power and meanings of sexual depictions, promoting a critical approach to the study of sex rather than relying on more familiar and well-known frameworks that prioritize sexual empowerment and sex positivity. In addition, this dissertation addresses the significance these emerging sexual depictions possess for television by demonstrating how they illuminate television's changing aesthetic, narrative, affective, and industrial conventions in the networked era. Such insights indicate that although sexual depictions remain a subject that is underexplored (if not denigrated and dismissed) within media studies, it is not only much more diverse and expansive, but also far more consequential than many media and cultural studies scholars might presume.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Gender studies.

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Sexuality.

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Communication.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Film studies.

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Comedy

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Dysfunction

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Feminist media studies

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Sex

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The University of Wisconsin - Madison Communication Arts

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Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-01B.

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