{"product_id":"divine-programming-negotiating-christianity-in-american-dramatic-television-production-1996-2016-paperback-1","title":"Divine Programming: Negotiating Christianity in American Dramatic Television Production 1996-2016 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharlotte E. Howell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the mid-90s to the present, television drama with religious content has come to reflect the growing cultural divide between white middle-America and concentrated urban elites. As author Charlotte E. Howell argues in this book, by 2016, television narratives of white Christianity had become entirely disconnected from the religion they were meant to represent. Programming labeled 'family-friendly' became a euphemism for white, middlebrow America, and developing audience niches became increasingly significant to serial dramatic television. Utilizing original case studies and interviews, Divine Programming investigates the development, writing, producing, marketing, and positioning of key series including 7th Heaven, Friday Night Lights, Rectify, Supernatural, Jane the Virgin, Daredevil, and Preacher. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs this book shows, there has historically been a deep ambivalence among television production cultures regarding religion and Christianity more specifically. It illustrates how middle-American television audiences lost significance within the Hollywood television industry and how this in turn has informed and continues to inform television programming on a larger scale. In recent years, upscale audience niches have aligned with the perceived tastes of affluent, educated, multicultural, and-importantly-secular elites. As a result, the televised representation of white Christianity had to be othered, and shifted into the unreality of fantastic genres to appeal to niche audiences. To examine this effect, Howell looks at religious representation through four approaches - establishment, distancing, displacement, and use - and looks at series across a variety of genres and outlets in order to provied varied analyses of each theme. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharlotte E. Howell\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of Television Studies in the Department of Film and Television at Boston University. Her work has been published in the \u003cem\u003eCinema Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCritical Studies in Television\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNetworking Knowledge\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eKinephanos\u003c\/em\u003e, and in the anthology \u003cem\u003eSupernatural, Humanity, and the Soul: On the Highway to Hell and Back\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 19, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47344388342009,"sku":"9780190054380","price":99.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/QyiEgfs7149780190054380_ba94e07b-4499-4747-b641-f5e875c2829d.webp?v=1769729846","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/divine-programming-negotiating-christianity-in-american-dramatic-television-production-1996-2016-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}