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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... audience ... Delightfuland provocative.' Charlie Peverett ofHERO (2002) Popular media presenta vast arrayof stories about women and men. What impact do these images and ideas have on people's identities? The newedition ofMedia ...
... of several books on media audiences and identities, including Moving Experiences (1995,2005)andCreative Explorations (2007). He produces Theory.org.uk, the awardwinning website on media, gender and identity. M e d i a , G e n d.
... audiences. It's unsatisfactory to justassume thatpeople somehow copy or borrow theiridentities from the media.To complicatethings further, we live in changing times. What we learned in the 1960s, 1970s or 1980s about media and ...
... audience member'. Nevertheless, each of us is still 'audience' ofa lotofelectronic and print messages every day – and 'audience' seems tobethe best word we haveforitat themoment. Perhaps we canaccept thatthe idea of'audience ...
... audience to more everyday gay andlesbian (and bisexual and transgendered) characters, tolerance should grow. Discussions of the representations ofsexual minorities in television andfilm appear in Chapter 4. O T H E R A X E S O.
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