Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Section I: Qualitative Explorations
Chapter 1. Unrequited Sexual Desire in US and British Crime Series: Comparing the Mentalist with Silent Witness
Colleen Keane (Independent Scholar)
Chapter 2. The Survival of the Forbidden Love in Television Fiction: “Romeo and Juliet” in Contemporary Spanish Series for Youth
Maria-Jose Masanet, Pilar Medina-Bravo and Sue Aran-Ramspot (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain and others)
Chapter 3. Is there a ‘Happily-Ever-After’ for the Childfree? An Analysis of Childfree Women on Television
Andrea McClanahan (East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, PA, and others)
Chapter 4. Is Being a Single Man Okay? A Critical Analysis of Masculinity and Singledom in the Series How I Met Your Mother
Jennifer Whalen (University of South Florida, FL, USA)
Section II: Empirical Investigations
Chapter 5. Sex and the Senior: An Analysis of Older Adults’ Sexual Activity Portrayed in Popular US Television
Heather L. Hundley, Jo Anna Grant (California State University, San Bernardino, CA, USA)
Chapter 6. Love is in the Air: Love Relationships in Television Commercials
Dorit Zimand-Sheiner and Osnat Roth-Cohen (Ariel University, Israel)
Chapter 7. Exploring the Impact of Individual Characteristics and Reality Dating Television Viewing Motives in Predicting College Students’ Stereotypical Dating Attitudes
Amber L. Ferris (The University of Akron Wayne College, OH, USA)
Chapter 8. Using Cultivation Theory to Analyze College Student Attitudes about the Dating Process Following Exposure to Romantic Films
Emilio S. Hernandez and Narissra Maria Punyanunt-Carter (Texas Tech University, TX, USA)
Chapter 9. Television Viewing and Romantic Relationships – The Downside: A Cultivation Exploration
Amir Hetsroni (Department of Media & Visual Arts, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey)
Index