Contemporary Youth Television: Precarity, Identity, and Resistance

Author:   Aviva Dove-Viebahn
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:  

9783032148421


Pages:   280
Publication Date:   24 April 2026
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release.

Our Price $336.35 Quantity:  
Pre-Order

Share |

Contemporary Youth Television: Precarity, Identity, and Resistance


Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Aviva Dove-Viebahn
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783032148421


ISBN 10:   3032148421
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   24 April 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction. By Aviva Dove-Viebahn.- Part I: Re-writing Youth TV for the Next Generation.- Chapter 2: From the Teen-Centered WB to the Youth-Focused CW: Rebooting Charmed and Roswell, New Mexico for Gen Z By Valerie Wee.- Chapter 3: From Girl Power to Girlboss: Surveillance, Technology, and Control in Teen Dramas By Reut Odinak.- Chapter 4: Covid, Childhood, and the Precarious Postcolonial Screen by Anwesha Chattopadhyay.- Part II: Identity, Resistance, and Space.- Chapter 5: Countering the Narrative of Gender Diverse Youth in Heartbreak High and Sex Education By Michele Meek.- Chapter 6: “I’m the Avatar, You Gotta Deal With It”: Identity and Resistance in The Legend of Korra By Colleen Etman.- Chapter 7: “We’re gentrifying. It’s all good!” Comparing Representations of Gentrification and Displacement in South Park’s SoDaSoPa to Cape Town, South Africa by Sheena Swemmer.- Chapter 8: Road Trips and Rights: Negotiating Gender, Race, and Reproductive Choice in Unpregnant and Plan B by Katherine Lehman.- Part III: Navigating Crisis, Politics, and Fear of the Future.- chapter 9: The (Geo)Politics of Affect and Islamophobia in Degrassi: The Next Class by Christian David Zeitz.- Chapter 10: HBO’s Euphoria: Gen-Z’s Suburban Babylon, The Ouroboros of Late-Stage Capitalist America by Will Nolen.- Chapter 11: Nihilism on the Move: Global Markets of Cynicism and Care in DRUCK and SKAM: Italia by Aviva Dove-Viebahn.- Chapter 12: “Something's coming. Something hungry for blood”: The Upside-Down as an Environmental Reality by Srijani Naskar and Rusha Chowdhury.

Reviews

Author Information

Aviva Dove-Viebahn is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of English at Arizona State University, with a PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester. She is the author of There She Goes Again: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises (2023) and co-editor (with Carrie N. Baker) of Public Feminisms: From Academy to Community (2023). She is a contributing editor to Ms. magazine, Editor of New Research for the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, and a member of the Editorial Board for Lever Press.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Countries Available

All regions
Latest Reading Guide

April RG 26_2

 

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List