Of Peerenting, Trophy Wives, and Effeminate Men: Modern Family's Surprisingly Conservative Remediation of the Family Sitcom Genre

Authors

  • Christina M. LaVecchia University of Cincinnati

Keywords:

television, pop culture, Modern Family, family sitcom, genre, family dynamics, parenting, heteronormative

Abstract

Just because the family is modern doesn't mean the family is new.

Author Biography

Christina M. LaVecchia, University of Cincinnati

Christina M. LaVecchia is a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of English & Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, where the pigs fly, the chili is served on top of spaghetti, and the inclines are steep. After finishing her master's in English literature this spring, Christina will stay in Cincinnati to begin her PhD in Rhetoric and Composition in the fall of 2011.

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Published

2011-04-05

Issue

No. 6 (2011): Family Rhetoric

Section

Family and Media Critique

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