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The O.C., A Critical Understanding, by Lori Bindig and Andrea M.Bergstrom, is a feminist cultural studies analysis of FOX's hit teen television drama The O.C.(2003-2007).Episodes of The O.C.are analyzed as a set of media texts that blur the boundaries between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic content.
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The O.C
The O.C., A Critical Understanding, by Lori Bindig and Andrea M. Bergstrom, is a feminist cultural studies analysis of FOX’s hit teen television drama The O.C. (2003-2007). Episodes of The O.C. are analyzed as a set of media texts that blur the boundaries between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic content. This analysis utilizes ancillary media such as director commentary in conjunction with content in order to understand how ideological content, in regards to gender, race, class, sexuality, and consumerism, is presented throughout the show. The O.C. is also examined in terms of audience analysis, auteur theory, aesthetics, and reality television spin-offs. Bindig and Bergstrom place The O.C. in a larger social context and explore the potential ramifications of popular media texts, as well as the series' cultural legacy which continues to resonate in media and culture.
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Headed for reruns; Gracias to Fox for killing \The O.C.\ -- it fed la naranja's worst delusions
Meanwhile, local multimillion-dollar empires such as Oakley, Quiksilver and Paul Frank showed Orange County's old money that there were fortunes to be made by catering to the hip. County boosters changed our image anew: We were now the nexus where cool and capitalism met. The national media lapped it up -- USA Today called Orange County \"the Cathedral of Cool\"; VH1 said we were \"America's Hip Factory\" and even staid U.S. News & World Report blathered that O.C. was \"Hip's New Headquarters.\" Tellingly, the only show to have nailed Orange County is no longer with us: Fox's \"Arrested Development.\" The show's Bluth family was just like its fellow boob-tube Orange Countians -- self- absorbed, rich, living in the good part of town and WASPier than a nest. In one episode, dopey Buster Bluth emerged from a car trunk in Santa Ana thinking he was in Mexico. He then walked into his maid's house, marveling that Lupe's children wore the exact same clothes he wore as a child. Here were the lords of Orange County in their grotesque reality -- insular, clueless, outwitted again and again by Latinos.
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Sun sets on `The O.C.
That ever-so-faint cracking sound you hear? A few teenage hearts are breaking - and a few vicarious-living, Peter-Gallagher-loving adult hearts, too. After four seasons of melodrama, aggressively bared midriffs, and Chrismukkah jokes, Fox's once-hot teen series \"The O.C.\" is ending. The last episode airs Feb. 22, apparently with the revelation that someone in Newport is pregnant. (My counterintuitive guess? Julie Cooper. Or, better yet, Kirsten Cohen.)
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Uh, oh. The run may be over for 'The O.C.'
Julie Cooper (Melinda Clarke), [Marissa Cooper]'s mother, is obsessively trimming the shrubbery, single-handedly moving the furniture and, predictably, popping prescription pills. Oh, and she's also meeting [Ryan Atwood] -- what the?! -- at a sleazy motel. Fox is trying to boost \"The O.C.\" by offering multiple viewing opportunities on the Internet. As of last Thursday, the season premire was being streamed free at myspace.com and via local Fox websites, including KTVI's myfoxstl.com. PHOTO; PHOTO - Summer ([Rachel Bilson], left) and new friend Che ([Chris Pratt]) get fellow Brown students to sign a petition in \"The O.C.\" episode \"The Avengers,\" scheduled to air Thursday. Michael Desmond | Fox
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'O.C.' previews on Internet give Fox a head start
[Muller], meanwhile, will be replaced next week on Los Angeles' KLAC-AM after 18 months. The Los Angeles outlet had been pointed to as a harbinger of Muller's chances of taking his piecemeal syndicate of stations truly national. This week he did add WJNA-AM of Ft. Lauderdale to a lineup that includes Fresno, Calif.; Tucson, Ariz.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Kalamazoo, Mich., and Des Moines.
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Graduation plans grip 'O.C.' ; Fans wonder about future as show moves on
Last week, [Seth] (Adam Brody) made it clear he wants to go to Brown, Summer (Rachel Bilson), suddenly finding out she's smart, will apply there too. [Marissa] (Mischa Barton) and [Jeri Ryan] (Ben McKenzie) seem bound for Berkeley. O.C. creator Josh Schwartz says the characters had to move on. \"We didn't want to be one of the shows that stayed in high school too long. I've never viewed it as a high school show; it's a group of characters, a community.\" A spring episode will show the kids visiting campuses. Schwartz says he just returned from a college in North Carolina where he was pleased to find out that parties are not allowed to start on Thursdays until 9:01 p.m. -- after the preview scenes for next week's episode of The O.C., he says.
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Priming the pump for finale of 'O.C.'
Not only that, but Marissa's father, Jimmy (Tate Donovan), returns to Newport Beach in Thursday's episode, [Kirsten] has to deal with the death of her father, Caleb, last week, and Ryan's no doubt going to find out in the season finale what his no-good brother Trey (Logan Marshall-Green) has been up to with Marissa -- and it's nothing good. Not that there's anything wrong with Ryan's non- pugilistic side, but I predict some punching (or even some gunplay, if Fox's hype-heavy promos are to be believed) on \"The O.C.\" Thursday.
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'The O.C.' is back in all its soapy glory
Here's what you missed in season one, in 25 words or less: Rich Orange County family, the Cohens, take in poor kid (Ryan), who falls for the girl next door (Marissa); Seth gets and loses longtime crush Summer.OK, that was 26 words, but forgive me (and by the way, it's all first names in the O.C., because, as Summer might say, \"Stuffy newspaper style, ew!\"). Way more stuff actually happened last season, but the important plot points are easily recapped. As season two begins, Ryan, he of the hunky brooding, is living with his knocked-up girlfriend in his old 'hood, even though he's not sure he's the one who knocked her up. Seth is chilling with a surprising out-of-town friend and also working on his brooding skills.
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