Anxiety, helplessness and 'adultescence
Examining the appeal of teen drama for the young adult audience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12599127 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Feasey (Bath Spa University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 431-446 |
| Publication date | 2009-10-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-5494 • E-ISSN: 1460-3551 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1367549409342511 |
| OpenAlex | W2097552404 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
Although much work on the long-running Charmed series focuses on the popular appeal of the programme for the teen or 'tween' audience, this article examines the ways in which the show can be seen to appeal to the young adult audience. It argues that those themes, characters and intertextual reference points that appeal to the adolescent viewer also can be seen to speak to the twenty to thirtysomething generation who have turned their back on marriage, mortgages and secure employment in favour of a less rigid definition of adult maturity
Aesthetics · Anxiety · Appeal · Art · Developmental psychology · Learned helplessness · Maturity (psychological · Political science · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |