Class, Identity, and Finding the Right Wine in Schitt’s Creek: A Place to Love

Schitts Creek has become a cultural force with its catchphrases and meme-able moments, exploring love, place, and identity through philosophical and psychological interpretations, fan studies, trauma theory, and place studies. It encourages a process of self-growth and acceptance with emotional and intellectual depth that recognizes the value of self and community.

Format: Hardback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 15 May 2024
Publisher: Lexington Books

Schitts Creek, an Emmy-winning series that aired from 2015 to 2020, has become a cultural phenomenon with its memorable catchphrases and meme-worthy moments. In the book Schitts Creek: A Place to Love, contributors explore three central themes: love, place, and identity. They analyze the representation of class, sexuality, community, self-growth, fashion, and fans, comparing the show to classic literature and contextualizing it with its television peers and predecessors. The book argues that Schitts Creek's power and impact stem from its ability to tell the story of a family who reconnects and discovers their individual selves. It employs philosophical and psychological interpretations, engages with fan studies, trauma theory, and place studies, and applies feminist and queer readings. Ultimately, the book contends that Schitts Creek's inclusive ideologies and well-developed characters promote a process of self-growth and acceptance with emotional and intellectual depth that recognizes the value of self and community.

Weight: 414g
Dimension: 159 x 236 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666927597