Teen TV: Genre, Consumption and Identity

Teen TV is the first anthology dedicated to a broad range of television programmes produced for and watched by teenagers. With extensive coverage of shows such as Dawson's Creek, Roswell, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Australia's Heartbreak High, the book examines how these dramas construct and reaffirm distinct visions of 'youth'. Addressing a number of fundamental questions, the contributors ask: Is teen TV a genre in its own right? What other narrative forms do these programmes draw upon and why? How does teen TV interact with other entertainment industries, such as those of music and cinema? What position does teen TV hold within wider practices of consumption and identity inscription? The book offers a fascinating survey of the different forms teen TV takes and the many ways in which it is produced and consumed.

Glyn Davis is Professor of Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven books, including The Richard Dyer Reader (BFI/Bloomsbury, co-edited with Jaap Kooijman, forthcoming 2022), The Living End: A Queer Film Classic (forthcoming, 2022), and Pop Cinema (co-edited with Tom Day, forthcoming 2022). From 2016 to 2019, Glyn was the Project Leader of 'Cruising the Seventies: Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures', a pan-European queer history project funded by HERA and the European Commission (www.crusev.ed.ac.uk).

Kay Dickinson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture and Creative Arts at University of Glasgow, UK. She is the author of Off Key: When Film and Music Won't Work Together (2008), Arab Cinema Travels: Transnational Syria, Palestine, Dubai and Beyond (British Film Institute, 2016) and Arab Film and Video Manifestos: Forty-Five Years of the Moving Image Amid Revolution (2018).