Teen TV

<p>Teen TV explores the history of television’s relationship to teens as a desired but elusive audience and the ways in which television has embraced youth subcultures tracing the shifts in American and global televisual and teen media.</p><p>Organized chronologically to cover each generation since the inception of the medium in the 1940s the book examines a wide range of historical and contemporary programming: from the broadcast bottleneck multi-channel era that included youth-targeted spaces like MTV the WB and the CW to the rise of streaming platforms and global crossovers. It covers the thematic concerns and narrative structure of the coming-of-age story and the prevalent genre formations of teen TV and milestones faced by teen characters. The book also includes interviews with creators and showrunners of hit network television teen series including <i>Degrassi</i>’s Linda Schuyler and the costume designer that established a heightened turn in the significance of teen fashion on the small screen in <i>Gossip Girl</i> Eric Daman.</p><p>This book will be of interest to students scholars and teachers interested in television aesthetics TV genres pop culture and youth culture as well as media and television studies.</p>