Making meaning, making a home: students watching Generations

Title: Making meaning, making a home: students watching Generations
Creator: O'Shea, Catherine Mary
ThesisAdvisor: Strelitz, Larry
Subject: Generations (Television program)
Subject: Students, Black -- South Africa -- Attitudes
Subject: Television soap operas -- South Africa
Subject: Cross-cultural studies -- South Africa
Date: 2005
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MA
Identifier: vital:3479
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002934
Identifier: Generations (Television program)
Identifier: Students, Black -- South Africa -- Attitudes
Identifier: Television soap operas -- South Africa
Identifier: Cross-cultural studies -- South Africa
Description: This thesis is a reception analysis using qualitative interviews to investigate black students' watching of a South African soap opera, Generations, taking into account the context of a largely white South African university campus. The findings of this study are that students find pleasure in talking about Generations and hold seemingly contradictory views on whether it is 'realistic' or not. The analysis concludes that watching Generations does serve to affirm these students' black identity, since there is a particular need to do so on a campus where black students witness and experience racial discrimination.
Format: 98 pages, pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Journalism and Media Studies
Language: English
Rights: O'Shea, Catherine Mary

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