Small Screen, Big Picture

by Winston, Diane

• ISBN13: 9781602581852
• ISBN10: 1602581851
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-30
• Publisher: Baylor Univ Pr

Summary

"Coinciding with the expansion of the bandwidth-and myriad cable and premium options-the number of new series exploring issues of meaning, morality, and identity has exploded. Programs took different tacks. Some spilit a lot of blood; others focused on crime and punishment; still others fantasized about cheating death. Some were supernatural; others explored professional ethics; still others pushed the seemingly tenuous line between good and evil.

Author Biography

Diane Winston (Ph.D.) holds the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. She is the author of the Faith in the Market and Red-Hot and Righteous.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Old Wine in New Skins
True Believers and Atheists Need Not Apply: Faith and Mainstream Television Drama	p. 17
In the Beginning...Deadwood	p. 43
The Wire: Playing the Game	p. 69
"For What I Have Done and What I Have Failed to Do": Vernacular Catholicism and The West Wing	p. 99
Mixed Blessing: Generational Effects of Interfaith Marriage in Everwood and The O.C.	p. 125
"The Fire Next Time": Sleeper Cell and Muslims on Television Post-9/11	p. 153
Neither Male Nor Female
"Elect Xena God": Religion Remixed in a (Post-) Television Culture	p. 173
"You Know How It Is with Nuns...": Religion and Television's Sacred/Secular Fetuses	p. 201
Moralizing Whiteness in Joan of Arcadia	p. 233
"A Vagina Ain't a Halo": Gender and Religion in Saving Grace and Battlestar Galactica	p. 259
Revelation
"Chiariidaa o Sukue, Sekai o Sukue!": Nuclear Dread and the Pokémonization of American Religion in Season One of Heroes	p. 289
You Lost Me: Mystery, Fandom, and Religion in ABC's Lost	p. 319
"Have a Little Faith": Religious Vision in Fox's Prison Break	p. 343
"Who Am I? Where Am I Going?": Life, Death, and Religion in The Sopranos	p. 373
A Television Auteur Confronts God: The Religious Imagination of Tom Fontana	p. 401
Epilogue	p. 427
Notes	p. 433
Bibliography	p. 489
Contributors	p. 513
Index	p. 517
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