Sex as spectacle : an overview of gender and sexual scripts in teen series popular with Flemish teenagers
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- Elke Van Damme (UGent) and Sofie Van Bauwel (UGent)
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- Abstract
- In recent years, research focusing on representations of sexuality in entertainment has gained momentum. Television content can sometimes be characterized as “hypersexual,” and according to Jacobson (2005), such “hypersexual” representations can be found in two-thirds of programs. However, beyond offering teenagers more sexual content, the nature of the content has also changed. Using a qualitative textual analysis, this article gives an overview of the gender scripts represented in series that are popular with Flemish teenagers: One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl, Skins, Degrassi: The Next Generation, and 16+. Specifically, this article focuses on the relation between gender and sexuality. Sex(uality) has become part of the spectacle, and the tendency to “casualize” sexuality is apparent. This pinpoints the possibility that it may be time to reconsider sexual license in the twenty-first century as part of youth-as-fun instead of youth-as-trouble.
- Keywords
- teen television series, sexuality, sex as spectacle, casualized sexuality, gender scripts, youth
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-2074195
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- Van Damme, Elke, and Sofie Van Bauwel. “Sex as Spectacle : An Overview of Gender and Sexual Scripts in Teen Series Popular with Flemish Teenagers.” JOURNAL OF CHILDREN AND MEDIA, vol. 7, no. 2, 2013, pp. 170–85.
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- Van Damme, E., & Van Bauwel, S. (2013). Sex as spectacle : an overview of gender and sexual scripts in teen series popular with Flemish teenagers. JOURNAL OF CHILDREN AND MEDIA, 7(2), 170–185.
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- Van Damme, Elke, and Sofie Van Bauwel. 2013. “Sex as Spectacle : An Overview of Gender and Sexual Scripts in Teen Series Popular with Flemish Teenagers.” JOURNAL OF CHILDREN AND MEDIA 7 (2): 170–85.
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- Van Damme, Elke, and Sofie Van Bauwel. 2013. “Sex as Spectacle : An Overview of Gender and Sexual Scripts in Teen Series Popular with Flemish Teenagers.” JOURNAL OF CHILDREN AND MEDIA 7 (2): 170–185.
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- 1.Van Damme E, Van Bauwel S. Sex as spectacle : an overview of gender and sexual scripts in teen series popular with Flemish teenagers. JOURNAL OF CHILDREN AND MEDIA. 2013;7(2):170–85.
- IEEE
- [1]E. Van Damme and S. Van Bauwel, “Sex as spectacle : an overview of gender and sexual scripts in teen series popular with Flemish teenagers,” JOURNAL OF CHILDREN AND MEDIA, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 170–185, 2013.
@article{2074195,
abstract = {In recent years, research focusing on representations of sexuality in entertainment has gained momentum. Television content can sometimes be characterized as “hypersexual,” and according to Jacobson (2005), such “hypersexual” representations can be found in two-thirds of programs. However, beyond offering teenagers more sexual content, the nature of the content has also changed. Using a qualitative textual analysis, this article gives an overview of the gender scripts represented in series that are popular with Flemish teenagers: One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl, Skins, Degrassi: The Next Generation, and 16+. Specifically, this article focuses on the relation between gender and sexuality. Sex(uality) has become part of the spectacle, and the tendency to “casualize” sexuality is apparent. This pinpoints the possibility that it may be time to reconsider sexual license in the twenty-first century as part of youth-as-fun instead of youth-as-trouble.},
author = {Van Damme, Elke and Van Bauwel, Sofie},
issn = {1748-2798},
journal = {JOURNAL OF CHILDREN AND MEDIA},
keywords = {teen television series,sexuality,sex as spectacle,casualized sexuality,gender scripts,youth},
language = {eng},
number = {2},
pages = {170--185},
title = {Sex as spectacle : an overview of gender and sexual scripts in teen series popular with Flemish teenagers},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2012.673499},
volume = {7},
year = {2013},
}
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