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Friends are the family we choose for ourselves: Young people and families in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Ist Teil von
Young (Stockholm, Sweden), 2005-08, Vol.13 (3), p.269-283
Ort / Verlag
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications
Erscheinungsjahr
2005
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The young people at the centre of Buffy the Vampire Slayer present
themselves as an alternative family that contrasts with the programme’s
conventional families. This device helps to raise awareness about changing family
structures in contemporary Western society, particularly with respect to the
family’s capacity to facilitate the development of young people. The
series implies that the stability associated with the nuclear family is often
illusory and/or achieved at the price of young people’s freedom and
agency. The alternative structure, by contrast, answers the call for the
‘democratisation’ of the family (Giddens, 1999) and is coded
positively in spite of many weaknesses.