This anthology examines the constructions of intelligence and intellectuality in popular television and the social/cultural implications of those constructions. It considers the complexity of popular television images, the influences of these images as they both verify and vilify intelligence, and explores the representations of intelligence on television by looking at a variety of TV genres and through a range of theoretical perspectives and methods.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1 Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 Surveying Smarts on the Television Landscape
Chapter 4 1 The Social Construction of Modern Intelligence
Chapter 5 2 Representations of Intelligence on Prime-Time Television
Part 6 Social Class, Gender, and Youth Culture
Chapter 7 3 Class and the Intellectual inThe Simpsons
Chapter 8 4 Keeping the Intelligent Woman "In Her Place" Within the Patriarchal Social Order: Containing the Unruliness of Genius Brenda Chenowith
Chapter 9 5 "And I Haven't Beed a Nerd for a Very Long Time"-Intelligence and Subjectivity inBuffy the Vampire Slayer
Chapter 10 6 Is School Cool? Representations of Academics and Intelligence on Teen Television
Part 11 Scientists and Science Fiction
Chapter 12 7 Sexy Nerds: Illya Kuryakin, Mr. Spock, and the Image of the Cerebral Hero in Television Drama
Chapter 13 8 Brains in Service of Brawn: The Scientist/Soldier Dynamic in Science Fiction Television
Chapter 14 9 Priming Science Attitudes in Fictional Presentations:The CSI Effect
Part 15 Talk Shows and Reality Television
Chapter 16 10 Media-Constructed Anti-Intellectualism: The Portrayal of Experts in Popular US Television Talk Shows
Chapter 17 11 Portrayals of Intelligence in Reality Television
Chapter 18 12 "Faking" Intelligence? Representing Intelligence in TLC'sFaking It
Chapter 19 About the Authors
