Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture

Author:   Rosanne Welch
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
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9780786479238


Pages:   180
Publication Date:   11 July 2016
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Paperback
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Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture


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Author:   Rosanne Welch
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.254kg
ISBN:  

9780786479238


ISBN 10:   078647923
Pages:   180
Publication Date:   11 July 2016
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Preface: I’m (Still) a Believer Introduction: Here Come The Monkees One. Sweet Young Thing: Contextualizing The Monkees with a Short History of Teenagers on Television Two. Look Out, Here Comes Tomorrow: Counterculture Comes to Television and Middle America Three. Words: Who Wrote the Episodes and What Was That Something They Had to Say? Four. The Kind of Girl I Could Love: Feminism, Gender and Sexuality Five. Early Morning Blues and Greens: An Ethnic Studies Look at Minority Representation Six. We Were Made for Each Other: The Menagerie of Metatextuality Seven. We Were Made for Each Other, the Sequel: Television Aesthetic Technique Eight. Theme(s) from The Monkees: Narrative Structure and Themes Nine. A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You: Identity Construction and Confusion Ten. What Am I Doing Hangin’ Round? The Cultural Cachet of The Monkees Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

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not only a fine piece of cultural analysis overall but also an atypically readable and fun one --<i>Psychobabble</i>.


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Rosanne Welch teaches the history of screenwriting and one-hour drama for the Stephens College MFA in screenwriting. As a television writer/producer, her credits include Beverly Hills 90210, Picket Fences and Touched by an Angel. She serves as Book Reviews editor for Journal of Screenwriting and on the editorial board for Written By magazine. She lives in Van Nuys, California.

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