As entertainment reflects a culture's ideology, it is important for researchers to study its messages and subsequently its potential meanings. Entertainment has the power to inform and persuade, creating models for behavior with which the public interacts. The entertainment texts for the purpose of this study are the Castle television series and the Nikki Heat novels. Together, they create a unique multi-layer fictional world. By using postmodern, feminist, communication, and entertainment theories, the results of this study provide a tightly focused lens which views a narrow aspect of entertainment media. Each text was thoroughly examined using textual analysis, Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis, and conversation analysis. Contrary to expectations, the results indicated that the Castle and Nikki Heat texts support hegemonic ideology, particularly through the use of exaggerated stereotypes, strict gender roles, imagery, and narrative choices that help perpetuate rape culture. The discussion outlines how these results can be interpreted through the dominant messages presented in the texts. This research is intended to serve as a foundation for future research regarding entertainment media.

This research analyses how the medium of television has taken up the question of art history through the historical and critical review of series that have been acclaimed by their mass audiences. Viewed from a historical perspective, a number of milestone series have left their mark on the history of television and art. Some of them have contributed to the construction and dissemination of art-historical discourse, often formal and sometimes critical. This work examines film and television production on art in the developed countries of North America and Western Europe, notably the United States, France and the United Kingdom, at the time of the emergence and institutionalization of the medium of television, between 1945 and 1970, and then looks at the resonances in subsequent and contemporary programs. And, secondly, in a spirit of critical analysis, to try to understand what "television is doing to art and its history" in order to identify the specific discourse of television art history. In practical terms, the aim is to add to the literature on a subject that has so far received very little attention from art historians, and to help legitimize the medium as an object of art criticism. / Cette recherche analyse comment le média télévision s'est emparé de la question de l'histoire de l'art à travers l'examen historique et critique de séries plébiscitées par le grand public. Dans une perspective historique, un certain nombre de séries phares ont marqué l'histoire de la télévision et de l’art, dont certaines ont contribué à la construction et à la diffusion d'un discours sur l'histoire de l'art, souvent formel, parfois critique. Cet ouvrage examine d’une part, la production cinématographique et télévisuelle sur l'art dans les pays développés d'Amérique du Nord et d'Europe occidentale, notamment les États-Unis, la France et le Royaume-Uni, au moment de l'émergence et de l'institutionnalisation du média télévisuel, entre 1945 et 1970, puis leur résonance dans les programmes ultérieurs et contemporains. D'autre part, dans un esprit d'analyse critique, il s’agit de comprendre ce que "la télévision fait à l'art et à son histoire" afin d'identifier le discours spécifique de l'histoire de l'art télévisuelle. Concrètement, cette thèse vient enrichir la littérature sur un sujet jusqu'ici peu traité par les historiens de l'art et des médias, et contribuer à légitimer le média comme objet de la critique d'art.