Media, Gender and Identity: An IntroductionPopular media present a vast array of stories about women and men. What impact do these images and ideas have on people’s identities? The new edition of Media, Gender and Identity is a highly readable introduction to the relationship between media and gender identities today. Fully revised and updated, including new case studies and a new chapter, it considers a wide range of research and provides new ways for thinking about the media’s influence on gender and sexuality. David Gauntlett discusses movies such as Knocked Up and Spiderman 3, men’s and women’s magazines, TV shows, self-help books, YouTube videos, and more, to show how the media play a role in the shaping of individual self-identities. The book includes:
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... Foucault; an outline of creative approaches, where identities are explored with video, drawing or Lego bricks; a website withextraarticles, interviews and selected links at www.theoryhead.com. David Gauntlett is Professor of Media and ...
... Foucault in Paris 7.1 Judith Butler 8.1 Men's magazines: seeking masculinities for the modern world 9.1 Women's magazines: offering a range of contradictory suggestions about modern female identities 10.1 Selfhelp books 11.1 Examples of ...
... Foucault and Judith Butler), whose ideas about identity give us more to work with when consideringthe role ofthemediainthe formationand negotiation of genderand sexual identities. Thissecond edition also gives you a taste ofnew ...
... Foucault and Chapter7makes use of queer theory. (No previous knowledge of these approachesis assumed.)In Chapters8to10,we turn backtoactual contemporary media,andseek to relate some of thesetheoretical ideastopopular culture. In ...
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