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Gender and Media Reader

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ISBN-10: 0415993466

ISBN-13: 9780415993463

Edition: 2011

Authors: Mary Celeste Kearney

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The Gender and Media Reader is the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary anthology of the best known and most influential writings in gender and media studies. It is an essential text for those interested in the development of gender and media studies, its primary topics, debates, and theoretical approaches. In contrast to most other readers edited by feminist media scholars, The Gender and Media Reader is not sex-specific; it examines media culture in relation to males and masculinity as well as females and femininity, while also paying close attention to the many other identities that intersect with gender, particularly race and sexuality. Moreover, unlike many readers edited by media…    
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Book details

List price: $130.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/3/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 716
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.058
Language: English

Introduction
Foundations: Studying Gender and Media
Introduction to Part I
Feminist Perspectives on the Media
The Symbolic Annihilation of Women by the Mass Media
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
Defining Women: The Case of Cagney and Lacey
Gender and the Culture of Empire: Toward a Feminist Ethnography of Cinema
Beyond Racism and Misogyny: Black Feminism and 2 Live Crew
Imitation and Gender Insubordination
Postfeminist Media Culture: Elements of a Sensibility
Production: Employment, Creativity, Marketing, and Technology
Introduction to Part II
Women and Men in Film: Gender Inequality Among Writers in a Culture Industry
Women's Film Production: Going Mainstream
Gendering the Commodity Audience: Critical Media Research, Feminism, and Political Economy
Hiding Homoeroticism in Plain View: The Fight Club DVD as Digital Closet
Fractured Fairy Tales and Fragmented Markets: Disney's Weddings of a Lifetime and the Cultural Politics of Media Conglomeration
Gender and the Commodification of Community: Women.com and gURL.com
"I'll Resist With Every Inch and Every Breath": Girls and Zine Making as a Form of Resistance
Looking to Get Paid: How Some Black Youth Put Culture to Work
Women and the Electric Guitar
Texts: Bodies, Identities, and Representation
Introduction to Part III
Boys Will Be Boys: Men's Magazines and the Normalisation of Pornography
Reckoning Loyalties: White Femininity as "Crisis"
Brain, Brow, and Booty: Latina Iconicity in U.S. Popular Culture
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott: Rapping on the Frontiers of Female Identity
Making Her (In)visible: Cultural Representations of Lesbianism and the Lesbian Body in the 1990s
Joe Millionaire and Women's Positions: A Question of Class
Boys Don't Cry and Female Masculinity: Reclaiming a Life & Dismantling the Politics of Normative Heterosexuality
The Televised Sports Manhood Formula
Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn
Queer Eye for the Straight Guise : Camp, Postfeminism, and the Fab Five's Makeovers of Masculinity
"Slaves with White Collars": Persistent Performances of Masculinity in Crisis
A Body of Text: Revisiting Textual Performances of Gender and Sexuality on the Internet
Texts: Genre, Mode, and Other Narrative Strategies
Introduction to Part IV
Oedipus Interruptus
A "Girlboy's" Own Story: Non-Masculine Narrativity in Ma Vie en Rose
Speculations on the Relationship between Soap Opera and Melodrama
Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess
"I Just Want to Be Me Again!": Beauty Pageants, Reality Television, and Post-feminism
Fists of Fury: Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Martial Arts Cinema
Letting the Boys Be Boys: Talk Radio, Male Hysteria, and Political Discourse in the 1980s
"Waddaya Lookin' At?" Re-reading the Gangster Genre through The Sopranos
"Never Trust a Snake": WWF Wrestling as Masculine Melodrama
Forging Masculinity: Heavy-Metal Sounds and Images of Gender
The Gendered Carnival of Pop
Consumption: Spectators, Fans, Users, and Gamers
Introduction to Part V
Women's Genres: Melodrama, Soap Opera, and Theory
The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators
There's Something Queer Here
Behind Closed Doors: Video Recorders in the Home
Sizing Up Record Collections: Gender and Connoisseurship in Rock Music Culture
Feminine Fascinations: Forms of Identification in Star-Audience Relations
The Fabulous Sublimity of Gay Diva Worship
Private Uses of Cyberspace: Women, Desire, and Fan Culture
Women and Games: Technologies of the Gendered Self
Real Boys Carry Girly Epics: Normalising Gender Bending in Online Games