- 285 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This collection maps the origins of the Netflix series Sex Education in relation to the genre of teenage high school dramas and comedies, exploring the four-season narrative arc and analysing the principal themes and characters. The Netflix series Sex Education has been a standout critical and popular success and has featured among Netflix's most watched content in 190 countries throughout its 4 seasons. Its fresh and exciting portrayals of teenagers and their friendships, relationships, identities and sexualities demand new frameworks for understanding gender and genre, as well as the dynamics of streaming and interaction with the audience. This collection considers the aesthetics of the series and its main philosophical, ethical and political aspects. It investigates the creative process behind the ground-and-taboo-breaking series, examining it as a cultural product that is both old and new in that it relies on tried and tested generic formulae while also being responsive to new identity formations.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Utopian Tropes and Troubled Teens (Deborah Shaw and Rob Stone)
- 1 Genre and Gender: Sex Education in Theory and Practice (Deborah Shaw, Rob Stone, and James Walters)
- 2 All the Times in the World: Sex Education and the Televisual Multiverse (James Walters)
- 3 Vulnerable Sanctuaries: The Precarity of Safe Spaces in Sex Education (Andrea Sofía Regueira Martín)
- 4 The Construction of Queer Utopian Spaces in Sex Education: A Critical Approach to Cavendish College (Lucía Gloria Váz
- 5 Lessons on Love: Emotional Relationships and Attachment Styles in Sex Education (Ania Malinowska)
- 6 “I’m scared. And I think I’m bisexual”: Grappling with Bisexuality in Sex Education (Sabrina Mittermeier)
- 7 “It’s like I’ve come home”: Race, Queerness, and Hybrid Identities in Sex Education (Anamarija Horvat)
- 8 “I’m trying to find out what kind of man I wanna be …”: Otis and the Nostalgic Struggles of Contemporary Teen Masculinity (
- 9 Complex Female Characters: The Makings of Maeve (Rob Stone)
- 10 “Some sexy kind of witch”: Representing Modern Motherhood in Sex Education (Louise Coopey)
- 11 Intimacy Coordination and Consent Culture in Sex Education (Susan Berridge and Tanya Horeck)
- 12 “We were just havin’ a bit of fun”: Teenagers and Porn in Sex Education (Debra Dudek, Lelia Green, and Giselle
- 13 Sex Education in Sex Education (Deborah Shaw)
- 14 Fuck the Pain Away: Real-Life Counseling versus Its Fictional Representation in Sex Education (Jeremy Schultz)
- Contributors
- Index