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Multiple birth families, religion, and cultural hegemony
| Title: | Multiple birth families, religion, and cultural hegemony: patriarchal constructions in reality television. |
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| Name(s): |
Cittadino, Emily M. Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters School of Communication and Multimedia Studies |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
| Issuance: | monographic | |
| Date Issued: | 2010 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Physical Form: | electronic | |
| Extent: | ix, 157 p. : ill. (some col.) | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | Reality television programming chronicling the daily workings of multiple birth families within American culture has gained notoriety in recent years. Such programs, especially Discovery Health and TLC's 17, 18 Kids and Counting and TLC's Jon and Kate Plus Ei8ht, film, edit and broadcast the "everyday" life of these families. This research study focuses attention on hegemonic ideologies surrounding family values, motherhood, gender roles and religious faith, illuminated through textual and audience analysis. Working from an interdisciplinary approach combining feminist media and cultural studies, this study finds that hegemonic notions of family values, gender representations, religious faith and conceptions of motherhood are evident to varying degrees in the television texts and accepted by fans who negotiate their meanings online. | |
| Identifier: | 653111602 (oclc), 2684311 (digitool), FADT2684311 (IID), fau:3521 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
by Emily M. CIttadino. Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2010. Includes bibliography. Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject(s): |
Mass media and culture Feminist theory Popular culture -- United States Women in popular culture -- United States Reality television programs -- Social aspects Television program genres Sex role in popular culture -- United States |
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| Held by: | FBoU FAUER | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2684311 | |
| Use and Reproduction: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
