Class, Identity, and Finding the Right Wine in Schitt's Creek (eBook, PDF)

A Place to Love
Redaktion: Deys, James; Anderson, Nikki; Deys, Kellie

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Following its meteoric rise, the Emmy award-winning series Schitt's Creek (2015-2020) has become a cultural force with its catchphrases and meme-able moments. In Class, Identity, and Finding the Right Wine in Schitt's Creek: A Place To Love, contributors focus on three central themes explored in the series: love, place, and identity. While considering the intersections of these themes, chapters analyze the representation of class, sexuality, community, self-growth, fashion, and fans, putting the show in dialogue with classic literature from Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens, as well as contextualizing it alongside its television peers and predecessors. The book argues that Schitt's Creek, at its core, derives its power and impact from telling the story of a family whose members reconnect with each other while discovering their own individual selfhoods in the process. Employing philosophical and psychological interpretations, engaging with fan studies, trauma theory, and place studies, and applying feminist and queer readings, chapters offer a variety of lenses through which to read the show. Ultimately, the book argues that Schitt's Creek's inclusive ideologies and strongly formed characters encourage a process of self-growth and acceptance with an emotional and intellectual depth that recognizes the value of self and community.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216338697
• Artikelnr.: 74396894

Autorenporträt

James Deys is associate professor of English at Nichols College. Kellie Deys is professor of English at Nichols College. Nikki Anderson is assistant professor of English at Nichols College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
James Deys and Kellie Deys
Chapter 1: "Merry Christmas, Johnny Rose": Schitt's Creek as an Aseasonal
Christmas Show
Max Romanowski
Chapter 2: Queer Creek: Celebration, Inclusion, and Representation of the
LGBTQ+ Community
Nikki Anderson
Chapter 3: Roses Blooming: Schitt's Creek and Developing Self-Love
Kellie Deys
Chapter 4: "A Wealthy Family Who Lost Everything": What Schitt's Creek Says
About Class and Culture in the 21st Century
Erin Giannini
Chapter 5: Schitt's Creek as Rural Fantasy: A Transformative Place to Love
James Deys¿
Chapter 6: Far From the Madding Crowd: Modernity, Community, and the Rural
Imagination in Schitt's Creek
Rebecca Mills
Chapter 7: "Walk[ing] Through Life in Really Nice Shoes": Alexis Rose's
Fashion as Crisis Ordinary and Extreme Domesticity in Schitt's Creek
Christina Xan
Chapter 8: Smiling No Matter What: Analyzing the Suppressed Rage of Jocelyn
Schitt in Schitt's Creek
Judith Clemens-Smucker
Chapter 9: "Um, Yes. Love That Journey For Me.": Schitt's Creek Fans and
the Stories They Tell Through Fan Art
Hannah Sophie Schiffner