Lexington Books
Pages: 188
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7391-2221-1 • Hardback • November 2007 • $108.00 • (£83.00)
978-0-7391-2222-8 • Paperback • October 2007 • $50.99 • (£39.00)
Lori Bindig is a PhD candidate in communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Youth and Media Culture
Chapter 3. Whose Creek is it Anyway? Dawson's Creek and the Politics of Gender
Chapter 4. Barely Visible: Traces of Race and Class on Dawson's Creek
Chapter 5. Dangerous Women and Safe Homosexuals: Dawson's Creek and Gender Representation
Chapter 6. Shop 'til You...Drown: Dawson's Creek and the Promotion of Consumerism
Chapter 7. Conclusion
Dawson's Creek: A Critical Understanding impressively deconstructs one of the most influential and popular "Teen TV" programs in history. Using detailed analysis, Lori Bindig highlights the symbolic complexity of the series and illustrates how youth culture intersects with different ideological dimensions, including gender, race, class, sexual orientation and brand-obsessed consumption.
— Matthew P. McAllister, Pennsylvania State University