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This article examines how the Israeli creators of the television series Euphoria explored traumatic realities of youth, while confronting genre conventions and cultural and social television production/distribution restrictions on creating teen drama series. Based on production research and text analysis, the article analyzes Euphoria’s themes and storytelling and the way it created ‘youth trauma TV’ sub-genre. The series and its creators rebel against traditional television representation of youth trauma at the level of content and storytelling, as well as at the meta-level of Israeli conventions of the genre of youth series.

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Alienation effect cultural studies production research social limitations teen series youth drama TV

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‘Youth trauma TV’ in Israeli Euphoria : Overcoming social limitations and generic conventions

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