Рубрика: Sexuality

The digital revolution

There is a widespread agreement that we have entered into a third era in television (Ellis 2000). The first era was based on a very small number of networks addressing a relatively undifferentiated, mass audience within national boundaries. The second was an era of expanded ‘choice’, with multichannel systems from the mid-1970s in the USA […]

INTRODUCTION

Cultural transformations This book looks at how sexuality has been represented on television over recent years. The past decade has witnessed a marked transformation in the diversity of these representations as a result of changes in the economic and cultural context within which programmes are produced and distributed. Given these changes, which I will be […]

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This book developed out of a course I have been teaching since 1996 at the University of the West of England, called Gender and Sexuality in Film and Television. I would like to thank all the students with whom I have discussed the programmes and issues included here. Their insights and diversity of responses have […]

SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD

Looking across the array of ongoing public debates concerning television, it is striking to note how fiercely contested the ones revolving around human sexuality and its representation tend to be. From one society to the next, alarm bells are recurrently being sounded, not least by those intent on holding television culpable for undermining what they […]