Date of Award
2007
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Communication and Culture
First Advisor
Jennifer Brayton
Abstract
Using textual and discourse analysis and a semiotic, narrative approach to television texts, I explore representations of identity, specifically interracial couples. I use three interracial couples on the popular mainstream television show Heroes to analyze and explicate the ideological portrayals of gender, race and their interplay as shown on television. Taking into account historical gender and race representational studies on television, I analyze Heroes as a multiracial, current mainstream television show in the contemporary comic book genre to understand the ways interracial couples are represented.
Recommended Citation
Lasch, Sarah, "Representation of interracial couples on mainstream television : confining identities of race and gender in Heroes" (2007). Theses and dissertations. Paper 318.
http://digitalcommons.ryerson.ca/dissertations/318